FUDBusters: Will Spammer's Jail Sentence Stop Spam?

FUDBust: This high-profile conviction may give pause to other spammers, but in the end, it will do little to slow down the shifty miscreants. Even though Jaynes, who blasted out more than 10 million junk e-mails a day, was prolific, he was only No. 8 in the world rankings. The top seven--and countless others--still run amok, and they'll figure out how to skirt the law. Filtering tools--at the ISP, enterprise and desktop levels--are still the best long-term antispam solution. Meantime, according to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, most users find spam less annoying than they did a year ago--a sign filters are working or that end users are just getting used to the junk.