d and clearly more important than everyone else around them.

Soloway is a lower life form who thinks nothing of enriching himself at the expense of everyone else.

Soloway was able to do what he did because unwanted commercial e-mail has become big business, apparently backed by organized crime, according to the USA Today report.

Soloway has pleaded not guilty and is being held in federal detention pending a hearing this week. Another news story reported that Soloway is apparently broke (nothing like moving the money out-of-sight before they catch you) and will have to be assigned an attorney to represent him at taxpayers expense (our

The arrest of 27-year-old Robert Alan Soloway last week was an important step in trying to reduce the amount of spam mail you are receiving these days. Spam includes unsolicited crap such as:

1) Subprime loans with rip-off interest rates and copious hidden clauses in the contract to keep you borrowing in the future.

2) Herbal remedies to help your love life, and assorted unregulated, unproven concoctions to solve all of your perceived illnesses and concerns.

3) Get-rich-quick schemes designed to relieve you of your hard-earned money without any return on your investment; you simply help a shyster get rich while you reduce your liquid assets and continue going nowhere a thousand miles an hour.

4) Phishing spam that lures you into typing your sensitive identification and financial data on bogus web sites which then create havoc with your personal finances.

5) "Pharm" spam pitching you fake pharmaceutical drugs that can be dangerous and expensive.

6) Stock spam that dupes you into investing in underperforming or nonperforming stocks in order to drive up the stock's value, so the bad guys can then sell for more and reduce their losses or actually make money in a fraudulent stock transaction.

According to a USA Today story Friday (6-1-07), Soloway made millions from 2003 to 2005 selling crude spamming kits to newbie spammers, and providing access to zombie networks to help his customers accelerate spamming through personal computers.

Zombie networks compromise home PCs that are used by spammers to solicit unwanted e-mail without the PC user even realizing his or her computer has been infiltrated and is being used for dastardly purposes.

Soloway became somewhat known to the real world in 2005 when Microsoft won a $7.8 million civil judgment against him, but he never paid the judgment. Given his coming up on the short end of a civil judgment, we could assume Soloway was a predator as charged.

Last week a federal grand jury returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

If you think Soloway just might be a rights taker rather than a rights observer you are right.

Soloway might well be distantly related to similar butt ends who, when they think they may not make their flight while waiting in line at the airport, run through security, get caught, shut down outgoing flights, and cause thousands upon thousands of passengers to miss their flights.

Always, people like Soloway and airport security crashers are self-centered, self-absorbed, self-inflated and clearly more important than everyone else around them.

Soloway is a lower life form who thinks nothing of enriching himself at the expense of everyone else.

Soloway was able to do what he did because unwanted commercial e-mail has become big business, apparently backed by organized crime, according to the USA Today report.

Soloway has pleaded not guilty and is being held in federal detention pending a hearing this week. Another news story reported that Soloway is apparently broke (nothing like moving the money out-of-sight before they catch you) and will have to be assigned an attorney to represent him at taxpayers expense (our

nd continue going nowhere a thousand miles an hour.

4) Phishing spam that lures you into typing your sensitive identification and financial data on bogus web sites which then create havoc with your personal finances.

5) "Pharm" spam pitching you fake pharmaceutical drugs that can be dangerous and expensive.

6) Stock spam that dupes you into investing in underperforming or nonperforming stocks in order to drive up the stock's value, so the bad guys can then sell for more and reduce their losses or actually make money in a fraudulent stock transaction.

According to a USA Today story Friday (6-1-07), Soloway made millions from 2003 to 2005 selling crude spamming kits to newbie spammers, and providing access to zombie networks to help his customers accelerate spamming through personal computers.

Zombie networks compromise home PCs that are used by spammers to solicit unwanted e-mail without the PC user even realizing his or her computer has been infiltrated and is being used for dastardly purposes.

Soloway became somewhat known to the real world in 2005 when Microsoft won a $7.8 million civil judgment against him, but he never paid the judgment. Given his coming up on the short end of a civil judgment, we could assume Soloway was a predator as charged.

Last week a federal grand jury returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

If you think Soloway just might be a rights taker rather than a rights observer you are right.

Soloway might well be distantly related to similar butt ends who, when they think they may not make their flight while waiting in line at the airport, run through security, get caught, shut down outgoing flights, and cause thousands upon thousands of passengers to miss their flights.

Always, people like Soloway and airport security crashers are self-centered, self-absorbed, self-inflated and clearly more important than everyone else around them.

Soloway is a lower life form who thinks nothing of enriching himself at the expense of everyone else.

Soloway was able to do what he did because unwanted commercial e-mail has become big business, apparently backed by organized crime, according to the USA Today report.

Soloway has pleaded not guilty and is being held in federal detention pending a hearing this week. Another news story reported that Soloway is apparently broke (nothing like moving the money out-of-sight before they catch you) and will have to be assigned an attorney to represent him at taxpayers expense (our

3 to 2005 selling crude spamming kits to newbie spammers, and providing access to zombie networks to help his customers accelerate spamming through personal computers.

Zombie networks compromise home PCs that are used by spammers to solicit unwanted e-mail without the PC user even realizing his or her computer has been infiltrated and is being used for dastardly purposes.

Soloway became somewhat known to the real world in 2005 when Microsoft won a $7.8 million civil judgment against him, but he never paid the judgment. Given his coming up on the short end of a civil judgment, we could assume Soloway was a predator as charged.

Last week a federal grand jury returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

If you think Soloway just might be a rights taker rather than a rights observer you are right.

Soloway might well be distantly related to similar butt ends who, when they think they may not make their flight while waiting in line at the airport, run through security, get caught, shut down outgoing flights, and cause thousands upon thousands of passengers to miss their flights.

Always, people like Soloway and airport security crashers are self-centered, self-absorbed, self-inflated and clearly more important than everyone else around them.

Soloway is a lower life form who thinks nothing of enriching himself at the expense of everyone else.

Soloway was able to do what he did because unwanted commercial e-mail has become big business, apparently backed by organized crime, according to the USA Today report.

Soloway has pleaded not guilty and is being held in federal detention pending a hearing this week. Another news story reported that Soloway is apparently broke (nothing like moving the money out-of-sight before they catch you) and will have to be assigned an attorney to represent him at taxpayers expense (our

ral grand jury returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

If you think Soloway just might be a rights taker rather than a rights observer you are right.

Soloway might well be distantly related to similar butt ends who, when they think they may not make their flight while waiting in line at the airport, run through security, get caught, shut down outgoing flights, and cause thousands upon thousands of passengers to miss their flights.

Always, people like Soloway and airport security crashers are self-centered, self-absorbed, self-inflated and clearly more important than everyone else around them.

Soloway is a lower life form who thinks nothing of enriching himself at the expense of everyone else.

Soloway was able to do what he did because unwanted commercial e-mail has become big business, apparently backed by organized crime, according to the USA Today report.

Soloway has pleaded not guilty and is being held in federal detention pending a hearing this week. Another news story reported that Soloway is apparently broke (nothing like moving the money out-of-sight before they catch you) and will have to be assigned an attorney to represent him at taxpayers expense (our

d and clearly more important than everyone else around them.

Soloway is a lower life form who thinks nothing of enriching himself at the expense of everyone else.

Soloway was able to do what he did because unwanted commercial e-mail has become big business, apparently backed by organized crime, according to the USA Today report.

Soloway has pleaded not guilty and is being held in federal detention pending a hearing this week. Another news story reported that Soloway is apparently broke (nothing like moving the money out-of-sight before they catch you) and will have to be assigned an attorney to represent him at taxpayers expense (our expense). Talk about adding insult to injury.

My guess is that Soloway's rate of recidivism probably hovers around 100%; he has clearly demonstrated that his avarice and stupidity know no bounds.

I wonder how innocent Soloway can be? He already has a civil judgment against him. Perhaps what we are talking about here is not that he is guilty or not guilty of a crime, but the degree of the crime he could well have committed.

What should we do with predators like Soloway should he be convicted on all of the counts he has been charged with?

Extermination? In a fit of anger, do not even bother yourself with the thought. Given the charges against him, he would not qualify for such a final judgment. Another reason is that some two-bit attorney would make a career and millions of dollars by getting stays of execution for years at taxpayer expense (remember, we are paying for this jerk's indiscretions and legal defense).

Lock him up and throw the key away? Not a bad idea, but our laws would prevent him from receiving a life sentence for stupidity. At the least, forget community service, forget some stupid plea bargain arrangement, and forget rehabilitation; if Soloway cannot figure out that he should not have been doing what he was doing, what makes you think he is going to be smart enough to be rehabilitated?

Lock him up? Why not? Let him do time and take at least one spammer out of our electronic communication system for a period of time.

Here is a novel idea: Upon release from prison, have Soloway write out this sentence in long hand one million times before his release from a halfway house back into the community: "I will never again use a computer to commit a crime?"

Even if Soloway never smartens up this will take him out commission for another period of time and hopefully improve his penmanship. If he screws up his writing, make him do it again until he gets it right.

If he is going to practice stupidity for the rest of his life he will at least learn to write clearly even if he cannot think clearly. That may be the best we can reasonably do with lower life forms. No one will ever be able to do for Soloway what he must do for himself.

Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley