Russian Spammer found Dead

Remember when the Internet was spam free? Every day you would sit down at your computer, dial into your ISP, open your email client, and wait several minutes while a few messages downloaded from your relatives and friends.

Then it happened. SPAM. Quickly it became the biggest online annoyance of it's time. Prior to popups and spyware, spam was the electronic equivilent of postal junk mail. And then it got so bad we had to start inventing ways to filter out the spam. And I'm sure most of us wished we could get back at that spammer - some of us may even have wished he/she were dead!

Well now it has happened. Vardan Kushnir of Moscow, Russia, was found in his apartment murdered by someone who finally got fed up. Vardan was known as the largest spammer in Russia, sending millions of unsolicited emails daily to advertise the services of the English learning centers he headed. Since Russia does not have any laws against such email, he considered it a perfectly okay commerical practice. Obviously someone else did not share his opinion.

You can read the original article at MOSNEWS: Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment