http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/27/spam_punishment_too_harsh/
I agree wholeheartedly with the author's opinion, and would like to add a comment:
This is yet another example of how we have allowed our democratic system to be corrupted by corporate self interest.
While annoying and fraudulent, spam harms the big corporations far more than the individual... Imagine an Email system with 30,000 mailboxes each receiving 5 spam messages a day... the individual just deletes his 5 messages at home and continues on with life. The corporation pays big bucks for bandwith, virus scanning, filtering, etc. The result: The spammer gets more jail time than the rapist.
Does that seem fair? It does if you are a big fortune 500 company whose only moral commitment is to the shareholders.
Sickening.
Spammers need to be stopped, but this is over the top.
Just my humble opinion. -- Robert Toole Systems Engineer KN Logistics / Calgary [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 717-8463
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