Former Spam King bemoans decline of Internet's original sin

[ChrisGreaves]

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=63156&PageMem=1


Some quotes:

"His problem? Spam filters had become too good. In 1997 Soloway was making his $20,000 a day with just one Earthlink account and a single mail server. Ten years later, ... he was making just $20 per day. "

"70-year-olds are now more likely to use email than teenagers."

"the number of malicious Web pages that use search engine optimization tricks to lure visitors nearly doubled between June and December last year"

[William]

Making $20,000 a day would've given him $7.3 million a year (if the money was that good, why stop for weekends or holidays). Yet 10 years later he's still at it, but making only $20 a day. It seems that he wasn't very good at hiding the loot, led a very extravagent lifestyle, or wasn't really making $20,000 a day. I'll go with the last explanation.

[ChrisGreaves]

I'll go with the last explanation.

I'll take the combo.
I suspect that a great many people who "luck into" big money can't manage it; it goes on firetruck-red convertibles, relatives, and sometime-friends.
It's only the steady drip-drip-drip workers who listen to their accountants.