Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Spam 0
The online division of Time Warner Inc. said on Wednesday it aims to recover assets awarded to it in a judgment against Davis Hawke, who sent at least 130,000 unsolicited junk e-mails to AOL subscribers over three months in 2004.
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It said it had evidence and reason to believe that $500,000 in gold and platinum bars are located at Hawke’s parents’ home in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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In recent years, AOL has recovered Hummers, Porsche sports cars, gold coins and other property worth millions of dollars from convicted spammers, and reinvested it in a spam-fighting campaign, the company said.
All joking aside, AOL’s aggressive anti-spam tactics were one of the two things that kept me using AOL long after I had cable internet (the other was the chore of moving my website off http://members.aol.com/frankwbell–for all I know it’s still there).
(By the way, Opie gets credit for finally getting me off my duff when he explained to me how he made Not Always Mayberry work.)
I hope AOL finds their gold bars. They gave me good value for my money for almost a decade, pretty much up until the merger with Time-Warner.
Then all bets were off.
