[Tijeras_Slim]

Sounds like they hit a nerve.

[anniegetyourgun]

Heck, his response is mild compared to what I'd like to do to spammers. I'll just have to bide my time until I can develop that program that returns their spam and simultaneously melts everything within 50 feet of the receiving machine.

[billorites]

"such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business."

Uh, huh.

[blau993]

Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business.

Do you think he said this with a straight face?

[Southack]

He'll beat the rap.

Ahhh, you know that he's going to "get off".

This will be a hard case to try.

His arrest was a long time coming.

[Snuffington]

Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business.

These guys think they have a good reputation, but for a few bad apples?

[Drango]

It should never be illegal to harm a spammer.

[bert]

Where is the name and address of the spammer?

[Agnes Heep]

It won't be long now.

[Cicero]

IMHO they're going after the wrong guy. They should send a SWAT team up to Canada.

[hillary's_fat_a**]

I really sympathize with the guy - I hope he beats the rap. I feel the same way about spammers - especially those that continue to spam after you ask to have your name removed from their database.

[knuthom]

If there was ever a case where jury nullification was justified, this is it.

[BlessedBeGod]

FYI:

Unwanted Penis Web Ads Prompt Calif. Spam Rage 20 minutes ago

[Criminal Number 18F]

Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business.

Anybody else wonder about this? I mean, this guy is a fraud artist and he presumably said that with a straight face, and some reporter wrote it down and filed it in a story....

You have to love governments. A guy who loses his cool because scam artists ping on him, goes to jail, and the scam artists go free.

On the other hand, any guy who pays Douglas Mackay to extend his Johnson probably deserves to be ripped off.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[knak]

They are pretty bad, I get them on my regular email address and it has an obviously female name to it.

[Skooz]

Booher threatened to send a "package full of Anthrax spores" to the company, to "disable" an employee with a bullet and torture him with a power drill and ice pick; and to hunt down and castrate the employees unless they removed him from their e-mail list,

That'll do for starters.

[Skooz]

Charles Booher should be memorialized with his own commemorative stamp. And a statue. And a holiday. And the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[Sockdologer]

This is the sort of guy I wouldn't mind having coffee with.
Evil spammers.

[Gone_Postal]

it seems bigger than it really is

[steve-b]

Frankly, "outlawry" in the old-fashioned sense of the term (i.e. the target is placed outside the protection of the law, and may be done unto without penalty by anyone with the ability and inclination to do so) is probably the best solution to the spam problem. I doubt it would come to physical violence -- but it would guarantee that a spammer's server would be remotely converted into a large paperweight within minutes.