Is it time we started killing spammers?

Where is there any useful/intelligent content in this article? Obviously we should not start killing spammers, because capital punishment is barbaric. Even if you agree with the death penalty, you would surely agree that it is not warranted for unsolicited emails. What is worse is that the guy is advocating not just capital punishment but vigilante justice. And we all know there's no way that can ever go wrong!

The numbered points are also all moronic. The little bit about suing them was just barely interesting because of the link. I think someone has been playing too many army based video games and has a little too many fighty/sexy chemicals sloshing around their brain. He would be wise to note that a large volume of spam is sent by very well resourced chinese and russian criminal organisations, and he should probably think twice before threatening violence.

The other possibility is that the article is an attempt at ironic humour. In this case, it is one of the worst examples of this that I have ever encountered on the internet. The author (anonymous I see) should have posted a selection of LOLcats instead.

Should we kill people who write shitty content-mill blog articles?

EDIT: so that my comment cannot be accused of the same things, here is my solution to the spam problem: we need to stop using email. spam is a problem endemic to SMTP. lets all support the apache wave project so we can work on an alternative with proper end to end authentication.

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/WaveProposal

Alan Ralsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ralsky) is a case in point of the "unconventional methods" of deterring spam. Once Ralsky's postal address got around, he received every kind of postal junk mail imaginable. He said: "They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is. These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me". I feel exactly the same about spammers. That Ralsky couldn't turn the situation around, and imagine himself as a victim speaks greatly about spamming's mindset, verging on sociopathy, if you ask me.

"Maybe 20 or 30 messages a day get through my spam filter."

He must have a pretty awful spam filter then - I checked my work Inbox and I have one bit of genuine spam in the last month - we use an outsourced commercial spam filtering service (I'm not going to give their name in case I sound like a shill).