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Spam Hits All Time High
John Moore on March 5, 2008
Spam levels continue to rise, and no one predicts a significant decline soon.
Some market watchers detected a brief respite in January 2008, following the traditional holiday spam spike. SoftScan, a European managed-security services provider focused on messaging, reported that spam levels dipped slightly in January to 96.8 percent of all email scanned, compared with 97.02 percent in December 2007.
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Virginia Supreme Court Upholds First U.S. Spam Conviction
News for spammers -- freedom of speech does not cover spam.
In a groundbreaking decision, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld the nation's first felony spam conviction, reaffirming the fact that the First Amendment does not include spam. The decision was upheld by a narrow 4-3 vote.
Jeremy Jaynes, of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted on three counts after violating Virginia's 2003 Anti-Spam Act, which resulted in a nine-year prison sentence for sending more than 53,000 messages in just three days through an AOL server in Loudoun County, Va.
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Spam Hits All Time High
John Moore on March 5, 2008
Spam levels continue to rise, and no one predicts a significant decline soon.
Some market watchers detected a brief respite in January 2008, following the traditional holiday spam spike. SoftScan, a European managed-security services provider focused on messaging, reported that spam levels dipped slightly in January to 96.8 percent of all email scanned, compared with 97.02 percent in December 2007.
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Virginia Supreme Court Upholds First U.S. Spam Conviction
News for spammers -- freedom of speech does not cover spam.
In a groundbreaking decision, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld the nation's first felony spam conviction, reaffirming the fact that the First Amendment does not include spam. The decision was upheld by a narrow 4-3 vote.
Jeremy Jaynes, of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted on three counts after violating Virginia's 2003 Anti-Spam Act, which resulted in a nine-year prison sentence for sending more than 53,000 messages in just three days through an AOL server in Loudoun County, Va.
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