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Comments on: AOL spammer gets two years in the slammer

hmm. 

Posted Sunday 4th November 2007 23:00 GMT

Coat

Shouldn't that be:

spam scam sting slings scammer in slammer.

or perhaps:

spam scam sting secures slammer for scammer.

Just a suggestion. I'll get me coat.

The unspeakable chasing the inedible... 

Posted Sunday 4th November 2007 23:42 GMT

Paris Hilton

...or something along those lines.

"for more than two years" 

Posted Sunday 4th November 2007 23:51 GMT

Why so short? And why has the author chosen to write it like it's a lot.

It isn't, and it isn't anywhere enough for anybody caught committing such a serious and all-pervasive nuisance to everybody.

Therefore, the piece should have been written along the lines of "was awarded a miserly sentence of just ..."

Cry boobies and let slip the Bloodhound Gang 

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 06:17 GMT

Flame

The spammer, the spammer

.. is on fire

The spammer, the spammer

.. is on fire

We don't need no water

.. let the motherf* burn

Burn motherf*

.. burn

This was all avoidable 

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 06:17 GMT

Alert

If they had only heeded the missives from the brother of the recently deceased oil minister in Nigeria.

Harsh public punishment is a form of mass mind control 

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 16:36 GMT

Stop

Long sentences for petty crimes are a way to scare the populous. The free full length film below elaborates on the present police state in the USA and the vision and philosophy of its creators

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6495462761605341661

@ Bobby: Sentence too harsh? 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 18:10 GMT

Flame

Those of us who run Internet mail servers would prefer that spammers were sent not to jail, but to the slaughterhouse, where their heads would be pounded flat with wooden mallets.

When these motherf*ckers spend all day stealing from millions of other people (and bragging about it on a regular basis), jail is too good for them. Unfortunately, bleeding hearts like you have convinced the Government to offer them mercy.

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