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worldwide spam decrease?

It's hard to imagine that the arrest of one spammer could decrease spam worldwide, but apparently the arrest of 27-year-old Robert Soloway may have just that effect. The man has made a lot of money via "zombie" computers of unwitting users--enough that "even with four bank accounts seized by the government, he was sufficiently well off to pay for his own lawyer."

The only difference I've noticed recently is that an increased number of phishing attacks have been making it through Gmail's spam filter to my inbox.

so what?

John keeps inviting me to join new online things, but my reaction isn't much more than to set up a skeleton profile and then ask, "So what?" I must be an old fogie for sure.