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- Possibly... but it's good to see the law work for a change...
- by June 24, 2004 6:18 AM PDT
- After watching spammer after spammer get away with murder (I once saw a spammer order 13 routers from Sprint, then sell them on E-bay), I'm just thrilled to see them start ACTUALLY going to jail.
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