Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back

HopToit writes "Robby Todino is apparently upset about being outed a couple months ago as the source of all those wacked messages about 'Dimenstional Warp Generator Needed.' According to Wired, someone has pulled a major joe-job spam attack (forged 'From:' lines) on three popular sites in retaliation for making fun of Todino's goofy search for alien technology. Robby, if you're out there, you have ceased to be amusing."

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Re:E-mail tax

[junkgoof]

Do it on a sliding scale. First hundred emails a day are free. Second hundred at $0.001 each. Once you get into the hundreds of thousands a buck each. Rebates if you can prove people were actually happy to receive your mail. Problem is there are some companies that send lots of email you may actually want to hear from. Real virus and security warnings, maybe. What it takes to stop spam is for judges to show a little common sense, and decide that spam, like bribes to politicians and their parties, is not free speech. Tracking down spammers and suing away their scam-gotten mansions would be fun.