Our friend from Seattle, Robert Soloway, will be changing residences shortly; he has been sentenced to 47 months in the big house. The prosecutors wanted 9 years, but the judge demurred.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/soloway_sentenced/
-- rick
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Ah yes, I missed it too. A bit of unsanctioned punishment could be coming his way too, I would think. Especially if his Tourette syndrome recurs. Deplorable, if so, and yet ... some small imp in the darker recesses of the mind exults and the shame of it seems slight. Civilization is such a fragile thing.
QUOTE(Farelf @ Aug 20 2008, 08:16 PM) 
Ah yes, I missed it too. A bit of unsanctioned punishment could be coming his way too, I would think. Especially if his Tourette syndrome recurs. Deplorable, if so, and yet ... some small imp in the darker recesses of the mind exults and the shame of it seems slight. Civilization is such a fragile thing.
-- rick
Well, they're still writing about this hoon. ‘Pure greed’ led spammer to bombard inboxes (MSN)
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SEATTLE - Robert Soloway is a convicted e-mail spammer. By his own admission, he’s sent so many spam, or junk, emails to Americans he lost count long ago.
"I would say it's over 10 trillion, most likely, from my home computer that I bought for $1,200 at Office Depot,” Soloway told NBC News in a recent interview at his home in Seattle. “So it's very easy. It really is easy to reach a massive amount of people."
His tale has a certain macabre fascination - sort of like watching a horror movie. But it's not his fault. Society made him do it.
"I would say it's over 10 trillion, most likely, from my home computer that I bought for $1,200 at Office Depot,” Soloway told NBC News in a recent interview at his home in Seattle. “So it's very easy. It really is easy to reach a massive amount of people."
I have to wonder what this guy (not recommended for dial-up connections) is going to do with Robert sequestered. Wait for his release I guess. Sad.
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