Man Arrested for 'Spam Rage'

Mirkon writes "We've all gotten frustrated at some point with spam. Perhaps we've even been motivated to send nasty, threatening messages back to the spammers, just to vent some frustration. Wired reports that 44-year-old computer programmer Charles Booker did just that, and 'now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.'"

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Re:Here's the real question

[Twanfox]

Personally, I do not generally respond to spam email to unsubscribe myself (this validates the email address, since there is no law requiring and forcing adherance to a 'do not spam' list). Not only is validating the fact they have a good email address with a living body at the other end, but often times, I question whether or not any of the links or return addresses they utilize even work, since half the time the 'From' field or even the date field is badly malformed and shows up blank for me.

Frankly, this spam issue is bad, since I cannot believe that unsubscribing will work, but beyond rejecting the email and getting them to stop sending me crap (or canceling my email address either temporarily or perminently), this garbage that doesn't apply to me keeps rolling in. It needs to stop, but unfortunately, there is no law that says a company can't advertise in that manner (yet).