Here's a good way to fight Spam

NEW YORK (AP) -- America Online said its members have submitted more than one million AOL screen names for the Internet company' s unorthodox drawing for a spammer' s seized sportscar.

Last week, AOL announced it had confiscated a Porsche Boxster S convertible as part of a settlement with a spammer who made more that $1 million from sending unwanted junk e-mail. The company launched a sweepstakes for the car on March 30 as " a gesture of support and thanks" to its members for their help in the fight against spam.

At one point during the first 24 hours of the sweepstakes, AOL processed several hundred entries per minute, the company said. The sweepstakes has generated 3 million pageviews of the sweepstakes promotion in just over eight days.

AOL stopped taking names at 11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday. The winner will be selected in a random drawing on Friday or soon after, and will likely be announced publicly during the week of April 19.

AOL is a division of Time Warner Inc., CNN's parent company.

You are right, Dan, that is a good way to fight spam. I think that they should also give away or auction other things. Let them confiscate the whole household! Let's see, I need a receiver and a DVD player. Gosh, if they confiscate some housekeepers, I could really use one of those.

*LOL*

I'll take the big plasma TV Screen...

And if they have a better Home Theatre Surround Sound System than me, I'll take that too...

Oh, and I call Dibs all on all thier computers...*LOL* (Resell them son of a guns)

And the guy that is sending me mail to say that genitalia isn't big enough for my "girlfriend" and that without it, I won't be able to use that piece of spam mail about mortgaging my house to live in with my new head of hair....is NOT getting his computer back...

If anything, I'll give him an abacus!