Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Spammers Can Go To Jail
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 01:00 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/technology/30SPAM.html
I know this is really off topic, but lately I've seen spam impact how people use their mobile devices. On more than one occassion, I've seen users remove email accounts from their mobile device because the volume of spam just costs too much over GPRS or is too slow over anything but WiFi, and even then it takes up precious RAM. :evil:
Virginia has passed a law making spam sent by fraud a felony. "The new statute adds criminal penalties for fraudulent, high-volume spammers. It outlaws practices like forging the return address line of an e-mail message or hacking a computer to send spam surreptitiously. Those found guilty of sending more than 10,000 such deceptive e-mail messages in one day would be subject to a prison term of one to five years and forfeiture of profits and assets connected with these activities."
:spam:
Nice to have the law but let's see how they enforce it. I haven't read the details yet, but I am wondering if just setting your spam-thrower to only send 9,999 messages a day will keep you out of the reach of this law? And what is one email, a message sent to one recepient or BCC'd to 50,000 users?
Note that the above site may require a free registration at the NY Times site.
I know this is really off topic, but lately I've seen spam impact how people use their mobile devices. On more than one occassion, I've seen users remove email accounts from their mobile device because the volume of spam just costs too much over GPRS or is too slow over anything but WiFi, and even then it takes up precious RAM. :evil:
Virginia has passed a law making spam sent by fraud a felony. "The new statute adds criminal penalties for fraudulent, high-volume spammers. It outlaws practices like forging the return address line of an e-mail message or hacking a computer to send spam surreptitiously. Those found guilty of sending more than 10,000 such deceptive e-mail messages in one day would be subject to a prison term of one to five years and forfeiture of profits and assets connected with these activities."
:spam:
Nice to have the law but let's see how they enforce it. I haven't read the details yet, but I am wondering if just setting your spam-thrower to only send 9,999 messages a day will keep you out of the reach of this law? And what is one email, a message sent to one recepient or BCC'd to 50,000 users?
Note that the above site may require a free registration at the NY Times site.
