U.S. authorities shut down worldwide spam operation

Wednesday 15th October, 06:43 AM JST

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Statistician at 10:33 AM JST - 15th October

Spamming is one offence I would happily use hanging to discourage. A few spammers swinging might get some of this junk out of my mail box.
Altria at 11:19 AM JST - 15th October

A sad day for the Hormel Foods empire.
neverknow2 at 11:38 AM JST - 15th October

Maybe someone can help stop this spam out there from viagra.com?
thepro at 01:12 PM JST - 15th October

Where will I get my enlargement from now?
presto345 at 07:42 PM JST - 15th October

Spam is a man made pest, a cancer hard to eradicate. People who spread it are the terrorists of the web and punishment should be severe. Every victory scored in shutting these nasty elements down is welcome.
cleo at 08:02 PM JST - 15th October

Spam is a man made pest, a cancer hard to eradicate

Too right! Orrible nasty smelly stuff maskerading as food, orterbe banned. And those tins are the very divil to open, cut yer 'ands open if you're not careful, can't stand the stuff, nasty, vile .....

...Oh, that spam. Yeah, that orterbe banned too.
ca1ic0cat at 08:52 PM JST - 15th October

spam, spam, spam, spam; spamitty spam, wonderful spam...

I'll be happy to see them go. And maybe a few rotten bankers with them?
presto345 at 09:25 PM JST - 15th October

This spam, that spam. Spam in tins, spam not in tins, spam on the net, spam in your mail box. Vile, unscrupulous, spam on topic, spam off topic. All must be banned.
The_Marion at 11:13 PM JST - 15th October

The U.S. authorities should open a e-mail address where we can forward all the spam we receive - maybe this will give the "authorities" some idea of just how bad this corrupts our computers. I am sure they know, but it would allow us to strike back, which would make me feel I could express my indignation
electric2004 at 12:34 AM JST - 16th October

To the Marion:

Try "Spamcop". It is exactly for this purpose - to get rid of SPAM.
kokuryu at 06:59 AM JST - 16th October

Well if they were a "significant" source of SPAM worldwide, I have not seen my spam drop even 1%... I wonder if we will ever see a TRUE significant SPAM operation shut down that will all of a sudden drop our SPAM by 50% overnight.
EurajReturns at 02:05 AM JST - 17th October

Thus, spam in my inbox dropped by one percent.