I need to dispel the rumor floating around that I want to personally trash Scott "Spam King" Richter's house if he is ever found guilty and, by some magical twist of fate, have his reportedly large, plush domicile seized by the government and handed over as part of payment. For the record, were this fantasy world to come true, and his casa became our casa, I have no interest in damaging the place. Such an act would reduce the home's value and I only want to work for the best interests of the company and the email world.
I *would* however, not be adverse to hanging out in the place for a few days with several hundred of my close employees, various fellow spam fighters, and some industry media (supermodels and famous people welcome at anytime, of course). I'd probably even be willing to do this all on personal time and expense, although I think that would hurt the symbolism of the event: "Mess with our customers and we'll sue you out of house and home" or some such. We could create a PSA with footage from various spammer ex-homes. Here we are at Richter's ex-place, enjoying the jacuzzi, here we are in Mrs. "Great new Stock's" ex-kitchen making margaritas, here we are in Mr. "All Natural Viagra's" ex-living room playing twister. I'm thinking of dozens of anti-spam slogans you could attach to such images. I bet you could too!
I'm sure the law doesn't work that way anyway, but a man can dream, can't he?
Psst, people should stop spamming (and phishing), pass it on.
The jig is up, spammers! You're surrounded! Come out with your hands up and perhaps even flashing that deed to your house! This dude over at ZDNet has blogged your end by deputizaing everyone who reads his post.
Gates proves real resolve in bringing spammers to justice by ZDNet's David Berlind (last paragraph contains our deputization, be still my beating heart).
All jokes aside, the more publicity Microsoft's determination and litigation gets, the better, IMHO, so please do pass it on.
For some reason, this seems like a good time to point out the obvious; that the opinions expressed here (and in all my posts) do not represent my employer's in any way, and are strictly my own. The rest of such a disclaimer reads something along the lines of: "The posts on this weblog are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights." Got it? Good.
