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NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam
Tech.Luver writes "A man from New Jersey has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for sending more than a million spam messages to AOL users. 'Todd Moeller was sentenced ... after he was caught making a deal with a government informant to send junk e-mails advertising a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the profits ... Moeller told the informant via instant messaging he could conceal the source of the e-mails through his access to 40 different servers and had profited $40,000 a month from other spam e-mail scams that promoted stocks, prosecutors said.'"
Given the prevalence of rootkitted Windows boxes and even servers on which spammers rent and lease time, the routing information doesn't do you that much good. And the routing information is often deliberately cluttered with forged and irrelevant headers, so it's not as useful as you might think.
Usenet had similar issues until the "NNTP-Posting-Host" header was added and became popular some years back, in the midst of a nasty war of forged cancellation messages on a Usenet newsgroup.