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Home 03 May 2008 Jeremy Jaynes gets one more chance Email In 2004 Jaynes became the country's first convicted spam felon under the Virginia anti-spam law. He's been appealing his conviction ever since, most recently losing an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court by a 4-3 decision in February. As I discussed in more detail at the time the key questions were a) whether the Virginia law had First Amendment problems and b) whether Jaynes had standing to challenge it. The court answered No to b), thereby avoiding the need to answer a), the dissent answered Yes to both. See more ... posted at: 23:49 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/jaynesrehear.trackback Happy Birthday Spam on the BBC World Service Email I was interviewed this afternoon on the BBC World Service newshour program, about the 30th anniversary of the first spam. To listen in, visit the program's web site. Click the "Listen again" link and, although it was recorded and broadcast on Saturday the 3rd, it is the Sunday 2000 GMT link. The interview is with Lyse Doucette and starts about at about 13:45 into the hour long program. posted at: 18:20 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/spam30.trackback

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