Comments on: U.S. makes first arrest for spim

Teen allegedly sent 1.5 million unsolicited instant messages--or spim--to members of the MySpace.com online networking service.

[Luxornv]

What an idiot

That guy actually thought he could get his solicitations authorized?! The network has users that are under 18, and I'm one of them. I actually got some porno mail through the network, it got annoying.

[Luxornv]

What an idiot

That guy actually thought he could get his solicitations authorized?! The network has users that are under 18, and I'm one of them. I actually got some porno mail through the network, it got annoying.

[mikeknox619]

Yummie! I love Spam?

Every year we complain about the exporting of high-paying jobs overseas and the flow of imported low-income illegal aliens workers within our borders. People can?t you see? -- U.S. small and medium sized companies are suffering. Our advertising options are getting destroyed.

People are sitting in front of their computers as television advertising is becoming a cheaper every year as people watch less and less television. In fact there is so many television channels to watch that advertising is like urinating in the ocean. Small businesses don?t want to waste their money on non-effective advertising media. Sure, we have our American Idol, Survivor and Superbowl mega million-dollar advertising campaigns. These advertising alternatives fall short of the small and medium sized budgets of available to our small struggling businesses.

We have made phone soliciting virtually un-workable. Now we are arresting people who spam. Next year, there will probably be a new law about knocking on someone?s door? and we?ll have to arrest the news paperboy or the Avon lady.

I don?t agree with broadcasting pornography to children or strong-arming an unwanted or undesirable business deal. But, everyone knows that MySpace has had the reputation of being the best T&A show in town. As for Tom, he has opened his doors on MySpace for classified and small business ads, and for this he should be commended. In addition he has worked to keep his website proper and free of offensive our lewd adult material.

Nevertheless, I think we should learn to tolerate Internet advertising and the capitalistic people behind it. When we dealing with spam and unwanted emails we should be reminded that small business is the backbone of our country. Most jobs and employment opportunities stem from suffering small businesses. We are cutting our own legs off by forcing businesses to take alternative means for survival. We can complain now, but, any law the prohibits advertising is suicidal to our long-term financial futures.

UNCONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE USA!

Yeah, I know thats a bunch of ********, someone getting arrested for advertising. Total Unconstitutional ********! We live in a Free Enterprise Market System. PEOPLE STAND UP FOR YOUR CONSTITUTION NOW!!!!!!!!!!

If you want it pay for it!

As previously stated, but obviously overlooked, internet advertising should be paid for. Just like television, I pay for my internet. I dont want to be watching the tube and have some freeloader splice into the cable line and play commercials during my favorite sitcom. The ones that are played during regular TV have been paid for just like the ones on the websites I visit. The site talked about in the article, which I am a member of, does have paid advertising on it, which is why it remains free. Now if you had Paid for and ad on television would you want someone broadcasting over top of you paid ad, or sneaking into the middle of a program for free? Probably not! And I am sure that the people who pay for ads on myspace feel the same way.

If you are in a small to medium business, chances are statistically, you probably wont make it past your fifth year. This should be known when you start a business and if you are willing to take the odds, dont whine because nobody will give you any handouts.

Ok enough from me... NEXT!!!!

Spam and spim

I agree that now and then spamming for small businesses is ok, what is not ok is doing it against the agreed upon rules when making an account for a site that says you can't spam. If you agree to the rules then if you break them and do something illegal when breaking the rule there should be punishments. MySpace opens itself to many people and by people abusing that with spamming and spimming it only harms the legit people on there who might advertise in ways other than spam and spim. If there are consequences for peoples actions many less people will be doing these things that are a waste of time for so many people. Spam is annoying and no one wants it and people dont join online communities to be spammed and annoyed by people that break the agreements they make to start the account to begin with.

[mikeknox619]

Yummie! I love Spam?

Every year we complain about the exporting of high-paying jobs overseas and the flow of imported low-income illegal aliens workers within our borders. People can?t you see? -- U.S. small and medium sized companies are suffering. Our advertising options are getting destroyed.

People are sitting in front of their computers as television advertising is becoming a cheaper every year as people watch less and less television. In fact there is so many television channels to watch that advertising is like urinating in the ocean. Small businesses don?t want to waste their money on non-effective advertising media. Sure, we have our American Idol, Survivor and Superbowl mega million-dollar advertising campaigns. These advertising alternatives fall short of the small and medium sized budgets of available to our small struggling businesses.

We have made phone soliciting virtually un-workable. Now we are arresting people who spam. Next year, there will probably be a new law about knocking on someone?s door? and we?ll have to arrest the news paperboy or the Avon lady.

I don?t agree with broadcasting pornography to children or strong-arming an unwanted or undesirable business deal. But, everyone knows that MySpace has had the reputation of being the best T&A show in town. As for Tom, he has opened his doors on MySpace for classified and small business ads, and for this he should be commended. In addition he has worked to keep his website proper and free of offensive our lewd adult material.

Nevertheless, I think we should learn to tolerate Internet advertising and the capitalistic people behind it. When we dealing with spam and unwanted emails we should be reminded that small business is the backbone of our country. Most jobs and employment opportunities stem from suffering small businesses. We are cutting our own legs off by forcing businesses to take alternative means for survival. We can complain now, but, any law the prohibits advertising is suicidal to our long-term financial futures.

UNCONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE USA!

Yeah, I know thats a bunch of ********, someone getting arrested for advertising. Total Unconstitutional ********! We live in a Free Enterprise Market System. PEOPLE STAND UP FOR YOUR CONSTITUTION NOW!!!!!!!!!!

If you want it pay for it!

As previously stated, but obviously overlooked, internet advertising should be paid for. Just like television, I pay for my internet. I dont want to be watching the tube and have some freeloader splice into the cable line and play commercials during my favorite sitcom. The ones that are played during regular TV have been paid for just like the ones on the websites I visit. The site talked about in the article, which I am a member of, does have paid advertising on it, which is why it remains free. Now if you had Paid for and ad on television would you want someone broadcasting over top of you paid ad, or sneaking into the middle of a program for free? Probably not! And I am sure that the people who pay for ads on myspace feel the same way.

If you are in a small to medium business, chances are statistically, you probably wont make it past your fifth year. This should be known when you start a business and if you are willing to take the odds, dont whine because nobody will give you any handouts.

Ok enough from me... NEXT!!!!

Spam and spim

I agree that now and then spamming for small businesses is ok, what is not ok is doing it against the agreed upon rules when making an account for a site that says you can't spam. If you agree to the rules then if you break them and do something illegal when breaking the rule there should be punishments. MySpace opens itself to many people and by people abusing that with spamming and spimming it only harms the legit people on there who might advertise in ways other than spam and spim. If there are consequences for peoples actions many less people will be doing these things that are a waste of time for so many people. Spam is annoying and no one wants it and people dont join online communities to be spammed and annoyed by people that break the agreements they make to start the account to begin with.

awesome story

what a dumby. he should know better than to me sending people porn over my space. that i just wrong.

awesome story

what a dumby. he should know better than to me sending people porn over my space. that i just wrong.

good

i think its good for someone to finally be caught for the spam people build up i don't think im the only one who comes online to just do whatever and doesn't want to be bugged with spam in my e-mail or anywhere else. so brovo.

good

i think its good for someone to finally be caught for the spam people build up i don't think im the only one who comes online to just do whatever and doesn't want to be bugged with spam in my e-mail or anywhere else. so brovo.

stupid spammers!

i've gotten emails on myspace from people that give me their aim screen names such as monicajames55, and naughtyrj05 at first they sound like regular people and then they start giving me porn sites.. another issue on myspace is prejudice people. one time i remember that a 'couple' emailed me and told me i was stupid just because of the things i said on my profile. i found it to be very offensive to me.

stupid spammers!

i've gotten emails on myspace from people that give me their aim screen names such as monicajames55, and naughtyrj05 at first they sound like regular people and then they start giving me porn sites.. another issue on myspace is prejudice people. one time i remember that a 'couple' emailed me and told me i was stupid just because of the things i said on my profile. i found it to be very offensive to me.

soooo retarded

Ok seriously... lets realize something here. The internet is a HUGE place where MANY people and companies advertise in various ways. And it just so happens to be that many of those ways are "unwanted" and generally considered "spam". Think of all the junk/spam mail u get evvvvvveryday. Whether it be Porn, mortgage, weightloss pills.. whatever... its unwanted. What this kid did is the same exact thing, he just found a different way to do it. 13 Yr old kids email boxes are full of these emails no matter how hard we try to stop it. Myspace has many people under the "age minimum"... no one enforces it. To say he advertised "porn" to minors is absolutly rediculous. There are so many websites with unscensored porn ads, so to come down on this one guy has to be one of the stupidest things i've heard. If your gonna arrest one guy for an ad... you better damn well arrest every person who puts an ad on their website that other people can see. I dont want to see or hear that annoying ringtone add on MySpace. Does that mean its unwanted? Is that spam? spim? To whose stardards is it "unwanted" anyways. Ads are ads they are everywhere its the internet if ur gonna be on the internet learn to deal with them because they will never go away.
Only thing this guy did wrong was blackmail or w/e MySpace... retard
God i love freedom of speach

keep up the good work

why wouldnt you come down so hard on this one guy. if they continued to not come down hard on "this one guy." they would never start comeing down on anyone to stop this. its good that they finally started coming down on people for doin this. i believe they should have him pay in someway for doin this because it is illegal plus he threatened the guy at myspace. but i believe they should make the people doin this and the company they do it for both pay. the company for having people do this and the person who actually does it for agreeing to do something illegal. but like i said earlier its a good thing they are doin somethin because everything has to start somewhere.

Ummmm

Speech ... Retard

soooo retarded

Ok seriously... lets realize something here. The internet is a HUGE place where MANY people and companies advertise in various ways. And it just so happens to be that many of those ways are "unwanted" and generally considered "spam". Think of all the junk/spam mail u get evvvvvveryday. Whether it be Porn, mortgage, weightloss pills.. whatever... its unwanted. What this kid did is the same exact thing, he just found a different way to do it. 13 Yr old kids email boxes are full of these emails no matter how hard we try to stop it. Myspace has many people under the "age minimum"... no one enforces it. To say he advertised "porn" to minors is absolutly rediculous. There are so many websites with unscensored porn ads, so to come down on this one guy has to be one of the stupidest things i've heard. If your gonna arrest one guy for an ad... you better damn well arrest every person who puts an ad on their website that other people can see. I dont want to see or hear that annoying ringtone add on MySpace. Does that mean its unwanted? Is that spam? spim? To whose stardards is it "unwanted" anyways. Ads are ads they are everywhere its the internet if ur gonna be on the internet learn to deal with them because they will never go away.
Only thing this guy did wrong was blackmail or w/e MySpace... retard
God i love freedom of speach

keep up the good work

why wouldnt you come down so hard on this one guy. if they continued to not come down hard on "this one guy." they would never start comeing down on anyone to stop this. its good that they finally started coming down on people for doin this. i believe they should have him pay in someway for doin this because it is illegal plus he threatened the guy at myspace. but i believe they should make the people doin this and the company they do it for both pay. the company for having people do this and the person who actually does it for agreeing to do something illegal. but like i said earlier its a good thing they are doin somethin because everything has to start somewhere.

Ummmm

Speech ... Retard

[toyotaas]

I am gay, what does spam have to do with it?

While I totally agree with you, I can't figure out why the younger generation uses the word gay to describe something bad. Yet they never think they might be in mixed company.

Mike a happy, gay, 37 year old!

[toyotaas]

I am gay, what does spam have to do with it?

While I totally agree with you, I can't figure out why the younger generation uses the word gay to describe something bad. Yet they never think they might be in mixed company.

Mike a happy, gay, 37 year old!

[YellowPoncho]

WTF is "Spim?"

Um, do you mean "Spam?" You keep saying "spim," it's annoying!

yeah

Didn't you know? SPIM is the next generation of SPAM! :D

Spam and spim.

Spim is spam sent through instant message.

You see: spIM.

Not that original, and a little lame, but it works.

WOW!

Dude....read the story before you post questions about it.

[focus4life]

RE: WTF is "Spim?"

It's spam that pops up in instant messages.

[YellowPoncho]

WTF is "Spim?"

Um, do you mean "Spam?" You keep saying "spim," it's annoying!

yeah

Didn't you know? SPIM is the next generation of SPAM! :D

Spam and spim.

Spim is spam sent through instant message.

You see: spIM.

Not that original, and a little lame, but it works.

WOW!

Dude....read the story before you post questions about it.

[focus4life]

RE: WTF is "Spim?"

It's spam that pops up in instant messages.

I've had it

If anyone else tries to do what he did as he said people would do, he should be punished more as an example. Every spam report= another half a year in jail, or something of the subject. Then spammers will see that we mean business, and that they're lucky they haven't been caught yet.

And..

SPAM/SPIM should be illegal because if it isn't, people think, "Hey! It's completely legal! I can do it, so I will!" And then said idiot spams 3290589058 people about their dog porn or whatever.

SPAM is a problem because people are letting them get away with it.

I've had it

If anyone else tries to do what he did as he said people would do, he should be punished more as an example. Every spam report= another half a year in jail, or something of the subject. Then spammers will see that we mean business, and that they're lucky they haven't been caught yet.

And..

SPAM/SPIM should be illegal because if it isn't, people think, "Hey! It's completely legal! I can do it, so I will!" And then said idiot spams 3290589058 people about their dog porn or whatever.

SPAM is a problem because people are letting them get away with it.

[Bill Dautrive]

The reason spam exists.

The reason spam exists is because it works. Get people to stop clicking on links and buying whatever crap they are selling, and spam will go away. Don't blame spammers, blame the idiots that shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, much less own and operate a computer. Yes, there needs to be laws controlling these people, but as a whole we all need to take responsibility for this.

If you are in a public chatroom, you can hardly complain about getting unsolicited messages of any kind, whether it is someone wanting to start a conversation or someone sending you links. To even complain about it, is silly.

As for this guy, if he is dumb enough to try and blackmail a company(or anybody), he deserves to be in jail.

[linnetwoods]

Excuse me?

If I am sitting chatting to fiends in a public bar, reading my correspondence on the Internet terminal in a public library or standing in the street talking to my neighbours, I don't expect to have to tolerate people bombarding me with unsolicited information. Why should I tolerate it when I am doing similar things online?

[Bill Dautrive]

The reason spam exists.

The reason spam exists is because it works. Get people to stop clicking on links and buying whatever crap they are selling, and spam will go away. Don't blame spammers, blame the idiots that shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, much less own and operate a computer. Yes, there needs to be laws controlling these people, but as a whole we all need to take responsibility for this.

If you are in a public chatroom, you can hardly complain about getting unsolicited messages of any kind, whether it is someone wanting to start a conversation or someone sending you links. To even complain about it, is silly.

As for this guy, if he is dumb enough to try and blackmail a company(or anybody), he deserves to be in jail.

[linnetwoods]

Excuse me?

If I am sitting chatting to fiends in a public bar, reading my correspondence on the Internet terminal in a public library or standing in the street talking to my neighbours, I don't expect to have to tolerate people bombarding me with unsolicited information. Why should I tolerate it when I am doing similar things online?