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So, Anti-SPAM Is The Law, But Do You Really Think It Will Stop?: Page 2 of 2

(D) the offense caused loss to one or more persons aggregating $5,000 or more in value during any 1-year period;

(E) as a result of the offense any individual committing the offense obtained anything of value aggregating $5,000 or more during any 1-year period."

These are noble values, but does the US Government have the resources to track down every spammer? My e-mail server handles at least one spam message and/or spammer per every 5 seconds. Taking my trusty calculator and dividing 1 minute by 5 seconds, I get 12 spams a minute. That's 720 spams per hour, or a whopping 17,280 pieces of spam per 24 hour period. That's just on one e-mail server!

Who's going to investigate this stuff? How much money is the government going to spend to investigate these 17, 280 pieces of spam (much of it coming from t-dialin.net, by the way).

From my point of view, it's just another pointless federal law.