Phil’s Diary - [Blog @ http://www.philsdiary.net/]
Finally, someone’s locked up a spammer. In my mind it doesn’t get much better than this. I really hope that spammers take note, but I’m guessing that earning 24million dollars is a pretty sure-fire encouragement to take the risk.
Spam email annoys me, but I’ve got some pretty good filtering to stop most of that (down to a couple a day at the most). But what really annoys me these days is spams to this site, in the form of comments.
What’s really ironic is that all they do is annoy me, and waste my time deleting them, because of course the spam filter here won’t even publish them for the world to see, instead holding them back for me to delete.
Spam wastes a lot of my time, and I wish it would go away. Lawsuits like the above may well help.
Posted by Phil on November 04, 2004 07:04 AM | Categories: Technology
I rather like Dr. Pournelle's idea - take out a contract with Godfather, Inc.....
Posted by: Ward Gerlach at November 8, 2004 3:57 PM
For you spam may be a time-waste, for me on a ordinary modem it's a bandwith eater to. And with timed fees it costs real money.
Posted by: sjon at November 5, 2004 7:03 AM