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Racing Fan Guilty Of Flooding TV Station With E-Mails: Sent 500,000 Messages
The Associated Press ^
| August 13, 2003
Posted on 08/13/2003 10:20:33 AM PDT by new cruelty
BOSTON -- A fit of anger is costing a NASCAR fan plenty.
Michael Melo pleaded guilty in May to a federal misdemeanor charge of damage to a protected computer system for flooding Fox Entertainment with angry e-mails after a Boston Red Sox baseball game pre-empted an auto race he was watching.
Melo already has paid $36,000 in restitution and has to fork over $2,000 more in fines. He admitted that he wrote a computer program that blitzed Boston's Fox affiliate with more than 500,000 e-mail messages.
The e-mails were automatically forwarded to the station's Los Angeles parent company, Fox Entertainment. The network, thinking it was a hacker attack, shut down Internet communication with the affiliate and was forced to spend about $36,000 to clean up after the barrage.
Melo has also been sentenced to six months of home detention for his May 2001 stunt.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: nascar
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To: new cruelty
So can we now sue spammers and make them pay for all the down time they cause? ;o)
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posted on
08/13/2003 1:58:00 PM PDT
by
al_c
To: Az Joe
Try fighting the constant g-forces and heat that these guys face while "sitting down."
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posted on
08/13/2003 1:59:44 PM PDT
by
al_c
To: Az Joe
These guys are possibly the most physically fit of all athletes.
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:29:41 PM PDT
by
LooneyTick
(you have to be tough if your going to be stupid)
To: jmc813
Baseball is gay. NASCAR rules. Both are gay. Virtually every pro sport I can think of is extremely gay.
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:33:01 PM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: new cruelty
Guess there is no room to debate that. : ) Oh, yeah?
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:37:43 PM PDT
by
Cooter
To: Cooter
Well, he did say 'Period'. That kind of cements it.
To: al_c
Is orbiting the earth a sport? They face greater G-forces and more heat.
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posted on
08/13/2003 4:16:30 PM PDT
by
Az Joe
To: LooneyTick
Astronauts are physicaly fit. That doesn't mean what they do is a sport.
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posted on
08/13/2003 4:17:12 PM PDT
by
Az Joe
To: new cruelty
$38,000: the price of Spam.
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posted on
08/13/2003 4:23:02 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Moderation in all things? Isn't that a little extreme?)
To: rogers21774
most football players suffer from severe drain bramage and most can't put a sentence together and there is more than one reason the center and the q-back share the same traveling room
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posted on
08/13/2003 4:33:45 PM PDT
by
mt tom
To: concerned about politics; new cruelty
Nice screen name you've got there. Take it from me. He is really, really cruel. I know from personal experience.
To: Jeff Gordon
To: Az Joe
Is orbiting the earth a sport? They face greater G-forces and more heat. Apples to oranges, Joe.
For about 10 to 15 minutes ... then they're in 0-gravity. Also, there's no competition ... nobody's trying to get to space before them. NASCAR drivers are in a race to a finish line (there's your competition angle) and in constant heat and oppressive Gs (comparable to fighter pilots) for up to 3 hours.
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posted on
08/14/2003 6:49:18 AM PDT
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al_c
To: al_c
How about airplane racing, log rolling, tree climbing, chain saw log cutting, poker? Are all of those sports too? There has to be a line drawn!
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08/14/2003 3:05:39 PM PDT
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Az Joe
To: jmc813
This guy rocks. Baseball is gay. NASCAR rules. Period. Ditto That! Good Buddy.
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