{"id":6224,"date":"2008-01-04T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/spam-king-does-time.html"},"modified":"2008-01-04T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T18:04:17","slug":"spam-king-does-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/spam-king-does-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Spam King Does Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/cuffs.jpg\" \/>Spam is a terrible problem and I don&#8217;t need to wax poetic about why. If I could make one comment about spam however&#8230; It is a terrible drain on wireless devices. Among all the other productivity zapping things it does to users, the wireless device battery drain is especially annoying.<\/p>\n<p>I am especially frustrated as I have to carry extra batteries for my wireless handheld e-mail device because of all the spam I receive. Well I do also receive a massive amount of legitimate e-mail, but the spam is the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I read with some satisfaction how a stock spam ring has been broken and the leader will be doing time. If seeing spammers arrested makes you happy, be sure to read this Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idUSN0318015120080104\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/06\/13\/2711278.htm\">Bail Denied for Alleged &#8216;Spam King&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam is a terrible problem and I don&#8217;t need to wax poetic about why. If I could make one comment about spam however&#8230; It is a terrible drain on wireless devices. Among all the other productivity zapping things it does to users, the wireless device battery drain is especially annoying. I am especially frustrated as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}