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AOL Digs Up Yard for Spam Gold
Registered Coward v2 writes "AOL is planning to dig in a MA couple's yard looking for buried gold and platinum owned by a spammer they successfully sued for spamming AOL. AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company suspects are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield, Massachusetts. The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL's plans."
No matter how irritating spam is, does it really deserve such extreme aggressive measures to punish the guilty?
In a word, yes.
#!/bin/csh cat $0
SPAM must be fought by all legal means possible. Spammers cause losses on an immense scale; all the time lost by people having to discard their SPAM, all the bandwidth, processing power on mailservers, etc. Spammers are thieves of the worst kind; it's like causing $100,000 worth of damage in a house to steal $1. In addition they write virusses to harvest email adresses. They operate large zombie networks to attack companies who try to fight spam. They try to hack every webserver to use as a spamhost. They're far more than just a nuisance, they're like the plague, and should be stopped at all cost. I rate them worse than drug dealers. Drug dealers at least see the people whom they destroy. Spammers are all the more despicable, thinking they can pull all this crap totaly anonymous. So yeah, let AOL do EVERYTHING they can to collect the millions the spammer illegally made. Go AOL, GO!