From Eastman's Onlline Genealogy Newsletter for May 19, 2003. - Spammer Arrested, Charged With Felony Howard Carmack, the notorious "Buffalo Spammer" accused of sending more than 825 million unsolicited e-mails from illegal EarthLink accounts, has been arrested and arraigned in New York on four felony and two misdemeanor counts. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer heralded the case as the first criminal prosecution of a spammer under New York's six-month-old identity-theft statute. "Spammers who forge documents and steal the identity of others to create their e-mail traffic will be prosecuted," Spitzer said at a press conference. Attorney General Spitzer stated that his office will seek jail time for this spammer. You can read more about this at: http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/2206311 To discuss this story further, please visit the newsletter Discussion Board at http://www.RootsForum.com and click on "Discussio Board"