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Spammer Gets $11 Billion Fine

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-shifts-at-the-dq dept.

Spad writes "It's not a typo, The Inquirer (amongst others) is reporting that an Iowa-based ISP has been awarded $11.2 billion in a case against spammer James McCalla, who was found guilty of sending over 280 million illegal spam emails. Under state law, the ISP was entitled to $10 per illegal e-mail sent. According to the Quad-City Times, McCalla has also been banned from using a computer for 3 years. From the article: "CIS acknowledged that it is unlikely to see any of the judgment money but said that it was time that spammers learnt that their actions would result in an economic death penalty"."

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  1. A point of grammar by dhowells · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.

    While this statement is correct, ‘effect’ can in fact be used as noun and verb.

    ‘I intend to effect these changes immediately.’ (I intend to bring about these changes ...)

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    1. Re:A point of grammar by poopdeville · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      So can 'affect,' as in "The soldiers seen on television had been carefully chosen for blandness of affect." ("The soldiers... were chosen for their bland facial emotional manifestations")

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  2. Re:he's not by poopdeville · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    'Affect' is a noun as well as a verb. Indeed, 'effect' is a noun and a verb as well.

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    After all, I am strangely colored.