Judge awards ISP $1 billion in spam damages
There are federal and state laws against SPAM. Other countries, such as the UK have anti-spam laws. Lawsuits are being filed. Microsoft, AOL and EarthLink have many of them in the hopper at any given time. Recently, a spammer was given a fine AND jail time. Now, an ISP has been awarded $1 BILLION in damages from a SPAM lawsuit. Why is it then, that even after ALL of the fines AND jail time, I still get the same or MORE spam than ever? I get somewhere in the vicinity of 400 spam emails a day. I realize that my spam problem comes no where near the almost 4 million spam emails that Bill Gates receives in a day. However, it's still VERY irritating to have to sort through all that crap to find REAL email. I have that mail account setup such that anything not on my "white list" is automatically junk, but sometimes I need to get to something I haven't white listed yet and have to go through all those SPAM mails to find the one I actually wanted.
How many SPAM mails do you receive a day? Have you found that the lawsuits or SPAM filtering technology are helping at all?
I get about 20 spam emails a day... On the contrary, I get ... Well, I don't get any email. It's all spam. =D