'Buffalo Spammer' found guilty of forgery

Accused of sending more than 800 million e-mails using forged identities and addresses, a New York state man faces up to seven years in prison.

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Spamming, Spoofing, Virus email

It's a joy to read that someone actually followed through and brought justice to this atrocity. My domain had been flooded with over 30,000 junk mail a month. I was starting to get over 1200 emails a day (about a half dozen were business related, or from friends or family). I'm getting a lot less Spam now. As far as I'm concerned the Buffalo Spammer fellow should get the full seven years without parole, and the same should happen to the fellow in Marina del Rey if the ISP I notified (who's block of addresses he's been using) does anything to follow up. There are only a few people who are causing a very big problem.

According to Symantec's web site, they admitted to making over two billion dollars in a single year largely on the basis of selling software protecting people from this sort of thing. It's my opinion that they, and the other big names (who also sell information on network traffic in 180 countries) have the ability to detect spammers in real-time and deal with the problem immediately; It's up to us to complain and force the issue. There's nothing missing but the will to do something to catch the perpetrators.

So the next time you get a virus or other junk mail, check the expanded header information. Find the originating IP address. Look up and contact the ISP who's block it came from. Call the 1-800 number if there is one or at least send an email to them alerting the ISP. If we all demanded something be done. The problem would cease. We wouldn't need all these security measures, anti-virus software or spam filters.

If there's something I'm missing in all this, please enlighten my ignorance.