Spammer actually arrested

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Via Fark:

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/2206311

Usually I excerpt a few paragraphs from stories like this, but in this case I need to highlight two sentence fragments:

...accused of sending more than 825 million unsolicited e-mails...

...prosecutors believe he made little money from his endeavors.

And there you have it: the REAL story on spam is that it's so worthless in advertising terms that 825,000,000 messages do not produce enough business to make money.