Aside from the fact that a postal service and spammer deliver information, there is little in common between the two. Advertisers are the main source of revenue for the postal services, as they *pay* the postal service to send out their ads. This keeps the price of postage relatively low for regular consumers, so the ads are tolerated as a means to improve the service (like television ads). Spammers, on the other hand, strictly *degrade* service by wasting the bandwidth, time, and money of the people who are *victims* of it. They do not pay for "postage" more than their own internet connections, and certainly don't help subsidize other peoples' internet connection costs through "ads." Yes, let's shoot the messenger, please.

Let's see......
The postman "does not" create and send the junk mail; A spammer "does" create and send the junk mail.

I don't get it. We don't arrest the postman when we get junk mail, so why are we chasing down spammers. They don't do this for fun, they do it because someone pays them to do it. Let's nail the guy with the money. Here we even know who that is. Let's put them in the slammer, and the whole thing will go away in a matter of months.

Yes herbs. We like to protect our own industry.

Good on yer kiwi's. Top result, made my day. Now throw him to the yanks and let them give him a good long stint of San Quentin porridge.