Judge: How do you plead?
Mr. Soloway: Not guilty. I'm in the country illegally.
Prosecutor: Doh!
I think the prisoners will be testing this guy’s personal firewall. I have a hunch their spam will succeed.
"It's that simple," she said triumphantly, swiping her palms. She just sent junk e-mail to 500,000 strangers - and you! - The person behind all that Junk Email is Laura Betterly.
From the Wall Street Journal
By MYLENE MANGALINDAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 13, 2002 12:34 p.m. DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The sun was setting on Laura Betterly's six-bedroom house as she reviewed a pair of outgoing e-mail messages one last time. Satisfied, she moved her cursor to the "send" icon and clicked. "It's that simple," Ms. Betterly said triumphantly, swiping her palms. She had just dispatched e-mail messages to 500,000 strangers. Half saw the subject line: "Don't miss your chance to win 2002 Lexus RX300." The other half saw: "Win a trip to Nascar!" Ms. Betterly's messages joined the roughly two billion other unsolicited commercial e-mails that hit in-boxes around the world every day. The company she runs from her home, Data Resource Consulting Inc., sends out as many as 60 million such messages a month. That puts the 41-year-old single mother in the most hated breed on the Internet. She sends spam. "I'm just trying to make a living like everyone else," says Ms. Betterly. Her e-mail marketing operation, she says, allows her to raise her children, Chris, 10, and Craig, 11, and to spend quality time with them. "You can call me spam queen, I don't really care. As long as I'm not breaking any laws, you don't have to love me or like what I do for a living."
