Spam King Soloway Gets Four Years

From the Daily Breeze.

Robert Soloway, a 1997 graduate of Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, was sentended in a Seattle federal courtroom this afternoon for charges related to his business of spamming e-mail inboxes with unsolicited messages - including those advertising his own business.

I’ll have a full report on the case and sentencing in tomorrow’s Daily Breeze. However, I’d like to note that, in the hour or so that I’ve been writing this story, I’ve received messages with these subject lines in my e-mail inbox:

• Stop Collection Calls
• PayPal Security Department
• Summer discount on w4tches delivery
• Angelina Jolie nude movie
• Do you want to enlarge your penis?
• Winning notification

Not that I’m against these cases or think that spammers shouldn’t be targeted, but I can’t help but think that prosecuting spammers is like filling a swimming pool with water - with an eye dropper.