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So I hate spam (and of course I don't mean the product by the Hormel company which has been cool enough to let the world use this word without launching a war against the use of its trademarked name), and I've been pushing bounties as one essential part of any real solution. Congress, the world is slowly coming to see, has no interest in a real solution -- at least after the marketers were finished them. But I am encouraged that Microsoft has launched a bounty campaign against virus makers. That's a much harder tracing to make, though they've offered lots more money than a spam bounty would require.

Meanwhile, this is a great story about a sort of vigilante
action against the most infamous of spammers. Bravo.

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"Instead of fixing our products, let's spend money to arrest people who point out their flaws." Yeah, that's a great idea.

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