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Dictionary Spammer Fined $55,000 for Spam Attack
Lawrence_Bird writes "In a first, a Japanese district court has ordered
a spammer to pay restitution to NTT DoCoMo for abuse of their imode system. 'The damage caused by large amounts of e-mail not reaching their destinations should be covered by the sender,' said the judge. The fine is about $55,000 and was based on an estimated cost to NTT of 1.2 yen per undelivered spam ($0.01) for the 4 million spams that were undeliverable. What is most startling is NTT DoCoMo assertion that of the 950 million emails
they receive each day, 880 million are not deliverable!"
that's even better than dumping tons of junk snail mail on him!
They tried to email the judgement to him but for some reason thiscouldbeyou@riches.await.com kept bouncing...
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
At last, a profitable business model for AOL!
I think you'll find they're just being blackholed. *rimshot*
Ew. I really wish I hadn't just used the syllable "rim" in that context.
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.
Probably. I mean, think of the poor ferrets
How about something more like a reality-TV show? For every 100/1000 spams sent... they spend one day on a deserted island. The island has water... but little food.
Eventually... we can wait until they turn on each other, or start suffering from malnutrition, whatever.
Disclaimer: I strongly dislike "reality TV", but I'd buy a dish and PPV just to see a bunch of miserable spammers shipped to some godforsaken remote destination