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This is great. I work for a company that has gone as far as using Artificial Intelligence in order to counteract spammers. Most people do not realize the damage that this guys cause. We have Espion Interceptors (www.espionintl.com) to filter spam.

We were having the problem of Denial of Service attacks. Email would take up to an hour to process. Although the email system does get slow while under DoS attack, the Espion Interceptors are still able to recive legitimate mail while filtering the unwanted spam So the system works great. The problem is that under a dictionary attack the Espion Interceptors still have to deal with the massive amounts of spam. We have gone as far as Implementing the LDAP facilities of the SPAM appliance in order to drop addresses that do not exist. That was on e of the best decisions we ever made, at least DoS is not so bad.

The laws should be extremely strict. We have an incredible communication system that gets disrupted by spammers, this is sad. Imagine a hospital that cannot get Laboratory results immediately due to network congestion. What if the patient dies while under a Denial of Service attack? Could we put this individuals in trial for murder? We should.

I hope that this spammer pays because all the money he has, he has earne by stealing other peoples resources. Should he be accussed of robbery? He should.

Right on, as usual.  Spammers are like dogs crapping on our lawns.  CAN SPAM takes away thousands of BB guns, and gives us one Howitzer.

I agree with you on the concern about nuisance suits.  There will be stiff opposition from lawyers, however, on any attempt to limit meritless suits.  Even if you could define merit in these cases, it would set a precedent that could threaten the legal industry.