Whatever Happened To Sanford "Spamford" Wallace?

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @04:02AM from the dj-master-spam dept.

Tackhead writes "People of a certain age — the age before email filters were effective, may remember a few mid-90s buzzwords like 'bulletproof hosting' and 'double opt-in.' People may remember that Hormel itself conceded that although 'SPAM' referred to their potted meat product, the term 'spam' could refer to unsolicited commercial email. People may also remember AGIS, Cyberpromo, Sanford 'Spam King' Wallace, and Walt Rines. Ten years after a 2003 retrospective on Rines and Wallace, Ars Technica reminds us that the more things change, the more they stay the same."

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Re:Why isn't he in jail? by benjfowler · 2013-12-25 07:50 · Score: 1, Flamebait

You've hit the nail on the head. America is culturally incapable of even thinking about how to deal with acting collectively on anything; then it doesn't surprise me in the least that it would find it difficult to jail anybody for massive crimes, committed against everyone collectively.
Here, the problem manifests itself in the US' comical, insane inability to jail SPAMford. The same could be set for the evil criminals on Wall Street who crashed the economy in 2008 and continue to get away with murder.