CAN-SPAM Act - Is it working? You Decide. (Linux Journal)

[Posted April 2, 2007 by cook]

Linux Journal's Tom Adelstein considers the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM act. "As I delete spam from my Gmail spam folder, I notice the volumes increasing. A year ago, I would see about five to ten emails a day in that folder. This morning, I woke up to 56 items. The volume of spam has grown, no doubt. The acronym CAN-SPAM comes from the Congressional legislation's name: Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003. The FTC has the responsibility of policing the Act. Of course, we all know what that means, the FTC will do little or nothing to enforce the legislation."

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Posted Apr 3, 2007 12:42 UTC (Tue) by mbottrell (guest, #43008) [Link]

CAN SPAM and DO SPAM seems to be the result.

Email boxes are filling up more and more, and suprise, suprise a large number are from US companies/individuals.

Ohh for the mighty dollar... seems to corrupt the most noble of efforts.