In a article in MSNBC, Robert Alan Soloway, Top 10 Spammer, was arrested on Wednesday in Seattle for alleging using zombie computers to send mass emails. In years past, Microsoft and a small ISP won indictments on Soloway for the same practice but now it is a whole new ball game. With him facing jail time and away from a computer internet users should notice a dramatic decrease in the amount of SPAM we are receiving.
Hooray!! For all of us who make a living using the internet and email this a very very joyous day! I look forward to seeing a noticeable decline in the amount of crap hitting my inbox everyday so let us throw an AR party and open the door for more note worthy emails that demand our attention and not just deletion, read full article.
Update
There is a way to fight back through posting Spammers to watch lists like The Spamhaus Project.
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