Over the last couple of days I’ve been getting 5 or 10 spams a day instead of 100+. At first
I thought that maybe my host had put on a better spam blocker, or maybe that Ashcroft was
intercepting my mail, but this story probably tells me why:
“Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., one of the Internet’s top 10 spammers,
according to watchdogs, was convicted in the first felony spam case…… He and
his sister, Jessica DeGroot, were both found guilty by a jury that then
recommended a jail term of nine years for Jaynes and a fine of $7,500 for
DeGroot.”
Nine years seems like a lot, but probably half the jury were spam victims. I’m not sure that this
guy could have gotten a fair trial anywhere.