Spam Slam

Wednesday, September 6, 2006 – a day that will live… in infamy.

VA. APPEALS COURT

Anti-Spam Conviction Is Upheld

N.C. Man Flooded AOL Customers With Unsolicited E-Mail

By Candace Rondeaux Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, September 6, 2006; Page B03

The Court of Appeals of Virginia upheld yesterday what is believed to be the first conviction in the nation under a state anti-spamming law that makes it a felony to send unsolicited mass e-mails.

A North Carolina man was convicted in Loudoun County two years ago of illegally sending tens of thousands of e-mails to America Online customers. Prosecutors said Jeremy Jaynes flooded the servers at the Internet company’s headquarters in Loudoun with bulk e-mail advertisements for computer programs and stock pickers.

Jaynes was sentenced last year to nine years in prison on three counts of violating the state’s anti-spam law and was allowed to remain free on $1 million bond while his case was appealed. Thomas M. Wolf, an attorney for Jaynes, said he plans to appeal yesterday’s decision.

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I’ve been a member of SpamCop for years and have worked hard to get slime like this nailed.

This is some of the best news I’ve heard in years!