Email Bomber Faces Retrial

An anonymous reader writes "A UK teenager who was cleared last year of launching a denial-of-service attack now faces a retrial. Judges have ruled that crashing a server with five million emails probably isn't permitted under the law. With NASA hacker Gary McKinnon vowing to fight on after losing his extradition fight yesterday, it's been a busy few days for the UK courts."

What is british spam like, anyway?

[Orrin Bloquy]

T/\lly H0! Av01d y0ur ch3m15t's f0r ch33p laudanum!

nothing to do

[Mydron]

it's been a busy few days for the UK courts

Yes, I'm sure they had nothing to do before these guys came along.

Re:Uh huh

[heinousjay]

Shhh. Here on Slashdot we like to pretend that the world revolves around the twin pillars of technology and socialism.

Ah. Chinese spam.

[Orrin Bloquy]

So that explains why twenty minutes later I'm deleting spam again.

Double Jeopardy

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

I thought the European Commission on Human Rights protected against double jeopardy. And no, Alex, I won't take Brussels for $200.

From a spammer

[this great guy]

So now we can't even send a small batch of 5 million emails without risking jail ? Pffffff. - Anonymous spammer

Re:nothing to do

[icydog]

You must be one of those ignorant Americans. Don't you know that the UK only ever has two types of criminals? Those who hack into US military servers and those who blow up servers with emails?

Re:Queue the oppologists

[Anonymous Coward]

No, they have to wait in line like everyone else.