
A Florida man known as the "timeshare spammer" was <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5959367.html?tag=zdnn.alert">sentenced to a year in prison</A> on Thursday for clogging in-boxes with millions of unsolicited email messages, in one of the first criminal prosecutions under federal anti-spam laws. Peter Moshou plead guilty in June to violating the U.S. Can-Spam Act after EarthLink sued him in January. In its suit, EarthLink alleged that Moshou sent millions of junk email messages in 2004 and 2005 offering brokerage services for people interested in selling their timeshares. The suit charged Moshou with numerous Can-Spam violations, including falsifying the "from" field in email addresses, using deceptive subject lines, failing to identify the sender, and failing to provide an electronic unsubscribe option.