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Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming
volpe writes "According to this Yahoo news story, Virginia arrested a North Carolina man for spamming in violation of a new state law. He was arrested Thursday afternoon in Raleigh, NC. The story is pretty fresh, so the news details are still pretty thin."
I demand a spear through the heart! (Delivered by a bare breasted maiden, of course.)
sulli
RTFJ.
Kilgore was later heard to say, "I love the smell of spam in the morning!".
He will inevitably drop the soap and have to bend over to pick it up.
I hope his inmates didn't buy any of his C0mp.le.tely 100 % N.a.T.u.R.a.L. MEN Enhancement!1!1!!!
...there is a Santa Claus! And he listens to Geeks!
officials were in negotiations for the surrender of a second man...
They're negotiating a surrender? Sounds like something I'd see on prime time USA, with a SWAT team and about fifty riflemen with guns trained on a panoramic storefront window. The retard must be shitting in his pants about now...
Come out slowly, with your email headers unforged!
Maybe if we executed him...publicly...
Unlike the poster, I bet.
im all for spammers taking a tour of federal pound me in the ass prison.... in all 50 states
Selling software wont make you money, selling a service will.
Doesn't Virginia have long history of lynching?
What a cool state. When someone sends them spam, the entire state gets up, walks over to a whole different state, and grabs and drags the spammer back, kicking and screaming.
Once upon a time, before the days of perpetual September, it was fun to participate in online discussions as yourself. With no need for munged addresses, some discussions could be taken to email, from which friendships could grow.
Now, that's all still possible, but a lot of the fun is gone given how defensive you have to be unless you want to have a mailbox full of spam.
I've had my primary email address for over 10 years now, and one of my secondary addresses is approaching 15 years old. If it werent for spamassassin and the like, those addresses would be unusable due to the sheer volume of spam I receive.
Jail's too good for these scum. Is there any way we can force them to go live in a sub-Saharan country, keeping their finances locked up in some international bank, forced to lug their 30-foot schlongs (from all that V*1*a*g*a*r*a, natch), wearing uniforms emblazoned with Official Make Money Fast logos, and riding around in little remote-controlled cars?
I don't know, I might be crazy. When I first looked at the topic of this story, I read it as 'Viagra Arrests Man For Spamming'.
RaGe
We're all just noise on the wires..
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> They're negotiating a surrender? Sounds like something I'd see on prime time USA, with SWAT team and about fifty riflemen with guns trained on a panoramic storefront window. The retard must be shitting in his pants about now...
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>Come out slowly, with your email headers unforged!
"Slowly" is not the proper way for a spammer to surrender to law enforcement.
To the "second man[sic -- not a human, actually a spammer]" whose surrender is "under negotation", please disregard the poster's advice.
ATTENTION SPAMMERS: Did you know that if you take a toy gun, and paint over the little fluorescent ring on the end with black paint, or if you dip a water gun in black paint, or if you just carve a potato into the shape of a gun and apply black shoe polish, your surrender can be negotiated much more quickly and efficiently.
Simply opt in to any one of these three easy options, and then run directly towards law enforcement officers while holding your black-colored gun-shaped object. For additional efficiency, scream as loud as you possibly can that you have "just one more free offer to send out" while running towards aforementioned law enforcement officers.
This public service announcement on proper surrender techniques for spammers has been brought to you by the approximately one billion email users of Planet Earth.
there is one, and it's headquartered in VA.
Time Warner, AOL, MCI? How about the CIA, Langley, Virginia...Doesn't all Internet traffic flow through there?
Make something ID10T proof, you'll make a better ID10T.
Ohhhhhh! So that's why she was emailing me offering viagra discounts. ;)
-T
-- (Paraphrased Clark Griswald from "Christmas Vacation")
Now, the question is, "Do they deliver?"
But why is the rum gone?
Actually, I think the punishment should be more harsh. I think they should publically execute the spammer. If they started doing that I think people might think twice before spamming.
Celebrate the finer things in life
the problem is that the spammers will probably move out of the country.
All the better... Do you have any idea how easy and cheap it is to arrange a road accident in Vietnam?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
A better way is to post to most, if not all the usenet newsgroups. Just put this in a message:
unsubscribe spam (your email address here)
Nothing worse that 10,000 nerds carrying a grudge for the rest of your life. You might as well just drop out of society completely.
At least you'll have 10,000 people to keep you company.
"Simply opt in to any one of these three easy options, and then run directly towards law enforcement officers while holding your black-colored gun-shaped object."
More appropriate:
"We have sent you this replica assault rifle with a 30-day money back gaurantee. Should you keep your replica assault rifle, we will automatically continue your replica assault rifle subscription and another rifle will be sent to you each month.
"Should you not want this specacularly realistic replica assault rifle or any other replica assault rifles from us in the future, you may opt-out of our replica assault rifle deliveries by simply calling the police to your house and carrying the replica assault rifle to them. You may receive a message stating that you are not certified to possess an assault rifle and to stop immediately, but you can ignore this message as it is merely a problem with your local police department's ability to recognize a top-quality replica like ours. This problem will resolve itself automatically as you get closer to the law enforcement officer."
paintball
So, I can expect 1/8th less spam over the next few days, right?
Chip H.