Man described as a top spammer arrested
 

SEATTLE - A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/...te/spam_arrest

You know I have seen less spam than other days today. :)

Good. I love to hear when assholes like this go down. I hope they take him for everything he has.

Buh bye asshole....|waves|

I wish the would go after paper mail spammers as much as the spammers where you just have to push delete.

I don't know about that....

Junk mail I receive in a week at work mailbox: Aprox 20-30 items.
Time it takes to go through to make sure it's not something I want or a bill in sandwiched in between 2....about 2 minutes.


Spam I receive weekly: 4000 (about 575 a day).
Now, I have a spam filter that catches about 99.9 of that and only a few get through. BUT a few good emails get into the spam filter as well. So every morning, I take about 15-20 minutes to go through the over night spam and then I probably check it 4 or 5 times a day as it accumulates. To see if anything important got caught in it.
Over all I probably spend about 45 minutes - an hour each day going through spam.

That's 7 hours a week and 15 FULL days a year I have to deal with spam. Multiply that by what I would make an hour (If I made an hourly salary) and that is a large chunk of change I am losing every year.

Compared to the (accumulated) 12 hours a year, I spend sifting through snail mail...... quite a difference.

Don't get me wrong, i hate that junk snail mail as well. But the difference between the 2 is huge.

I know it takes less time but the difference between the number of trees and landfill one takes over the other is huge as well.

Exactly my thoughts. |sad|

Lock the bastard away and force him to watch “Up with People” videos.

True... I was just commenting about it from a work/time wasting perspective.

I recycle all the crap I get in the regular mail. I wish they wouldn't send me any as well. My wife ordered about 5 things through the mail. Now we get about 20-30 catalogs a month.

That's what I mean. Have you ever tried to opt out of a catalog or magazine? I have been trying to get AVN to stop sending me their gay rag for over a year now :) I think that's why I am touchy about it these days. :)

The link below lists ways to stop junk mail cluttering up your mailbox. It lists all the addresses and tel numbers of the major junk mail distributors.

http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/

It may help you fight the good fight |thumb

4000 a week DrB? I laugh at you as I sort thru about 20K every 7 days :D

At least this assclown wasn't from Buffalo like the last one |thumb

i cry everytime when i skipped some days to check my emails, tons and tons of spam and i blocked tons of them also, then i see news breaks everytime, the biggest spammer caught in holland the biggest spammer caught in usa, well they probably didnt caught the right ones because i still get tons of spam|cry|