Spammer has to pay AOL $5 Million

Christopher William Smith of Prior Lake, Minnisota, a sleeze if there ever was one, lost the suit brought by AOL against him for sending out billions of spams. I hope he sits in prison for a long time too. People like this make it very difficult for honest companies to do business on the web. Marketing by email is now virtually useless because of crooks like Christopher William Smith. I’d like to propose to our government to make spamming a federal crime, and let them do hard time. Twenty-five years in prison, and the whole time spent reading spam emails. Nothing else.