mike weber <fairportfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> [quote]
> A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam
> e-mails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading
> guilty to tax evasion and falsifying e-mail headers.
> [/quote]
> Now, while 21 months is hardly sufficient prison time, ...
For hundreds of thousands of spams? Sure, if the penalty is linear.
1.75 years for hundreds of thousands of spams. 17.5 years for
millions of spams. Life (175 years) for tens of millions of spams.
There are spammers who openly boast of sending a *billion* spams --
per day! If someone is going to behave like a cockroach, give them
a prison sentence of as many geological ages as cockroaches have
infested this planet.
All of this obviously relies on the ability of the government to
figure out who is guilty and who is innocent of spamming. I think
flipping a coin would have a better chance of reaching the correct
verdict.
I see that he's accused of earning at least $3.5 million from sending
these hundreds of thousands of emails. These numbers are not remotely
plausible. Profits are measured in small fractions of a penny per
thousand emails, at best. For hundreds of thousands, he would have
been doing very well to get one whole dollar.
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