£90k fine- a few pence per user affected and 65 seconds per message seems fine to me, so long as no-one was hurt and nothing "bad" happenned besides someone going "Oh, bloody spam!" or getting beaten up for quoting monty python for the 70th time that day.

I would also make a point of getting a list of the proxies he used and inform their ISPs that this is happenning.

But yeah, seems entirely reasonable to me.

I see the slaps on the hand made no difference in the past then

Surely once someone has got to 2 or 3 prior convictions its time to say "hes going to do it again" or "hang the fucker"?

sold so many pen1s enlargement pumps & v1agra now!

>"30 months? I didn't even know there was a law against it!"

Then you're not mad, just fantastically ignorant. Google "CAN-SPAM" to find out exactly how little attention you've been paying for the past five years.

The US has a do-not-call database. Canada has a clumsy imitation of its own. The US version will not accept Canadian telephone numbers and vice versa.

So the Montreal boiler room operators target the gullible in the US and vice versa.

The key element in this is that many (most? all?) telemarketing calls are scams of one sort or another, some obviously and overtly criminal, others more subtly so. I regularly receive calls from an outfit apparently based in Tacoma, Washington. This outfit is well-known on the web to be engaged in "vishing" (voice phishing) for CC details they can sell, yet the authorities do not act.

Time to flatly outlaw not only e-spam but t-spam.

Stop it now!

Give them five or ten minutes per email. A decade or so in the slammer should get the message across.

sounds like a fair international standard. Course that puts certain Russian mafiosa and Chinese government trolls in jail for multiple lifetimes. Oh well. Consequences suck, don't they?

30 months in jail is excessive?

no bloody friggin way add hard labor in very nasty places to boot and daily cane whippings!And maybe just maybe i just maybe would consider it as a justifiable punishment...

same should apply to telemarketers....

BTW one of the problems these parasites exist in first place is because of companies that hire them in first place. so why not go after the people and individuals( particulary individuals since they are the ones making the decision to use these people in first place) and make them serve the sentences side by side?

in for the penny in for the pound as the saying goes...