Spam king deserves a huge helping

By CATHY SORBO SPECIAL TO THE P-I To those who spend most of their time in close confines with their computer, the topic of spam can raise something of an ire. In 2004, while speaking at the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates assured us that by 2006 spam would be solved. Although spam-induced annoyances have persisted, there have been more prosecutions of evil spam operators. Robert Alan Soloway, aka The Spam King, was sentenced Tuesday to four years in federal prison for being a totally annoying (insert your favorite expletive here) with his millions of spam e-mails. Soloway faced charges that included using people's Internet domains to send out massive blasts of e-mails. Those unsuspecting folks would have no idea that, in effect, their identities had been stolen to serve up the e-mails. So, if any of you ever received e-mail... [read full story]