E-Mail Spammer jailed for nine years

[SoCalDem]

http://www.boersenreport.de/technology.asp?msg=004682600000001660000000000


E-Mail Spammer jailed for nine years <09.04.2005 - 10:35>

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A man has been sentenced jail for nine years for bombarding Email-users with millions of spam junk e-mails, but the judge postponed the sentence while the case is appealed.



Loudoun County Circuit Judge T. Horne told that because the law targeting spam bulk e-mail distribution is brandnew and raises constitutional questions, it was appropriate to defer the prison time until appeals courts rule.

Before that a jury had recommended the nine-year prison term.

J. Jaynes was convicted last year for using faked Internet addresses to send bulk e-mail ads through a mailserver of ISP (Internet service provider) America Online, or AOL.

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But Defense attorney D. Oblon pointed out that nine years was far too long given that Jaynes, who is from North Carolina, was charged as an out-of-state resident with violating a Virginia law that had taken effect just two weeks before.

Jaynes told the judge that regardless of how the appeal turns out, `I can guarantee the court I will not be involved in the e-mail spamming business again.`

[rpannier]

1. Guy should have run a large multi-national corp

then he'd never go to jail.