Two spam-ignorati wrote:

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Don't get me wrong; I don't *like* spam. But for me it's a minor problem, certainly not worthy of legal remedies. I'm willing to suffer a certain level of foolish annoyance gladly in return for liberty.

Same for me. I can delete commercial advertisements ("spam") in seconds.

I used to have the same attitude. But then I started running a mail server. Routinely I find spammers attempting to use my server as a relay for their crap. The undeliverable notifications fill up my postmaster mail box so that I have to spend much more than "a few seconds" to sort out this virtual mail bomb from the legitimate notifications I need to do something about. Current I am chasing some asshole from ISP to ISP in Arizona, shutting him down only to have him get a new account with another ISP and "mail bomb" me from there. I would gladly prosecute, as this person is no better than a thief, stealing my resources and time so he can run his con. BTW, the reason I sent anon is so other spammers don't get my host name and try to use it as a relay.