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Spammers Not Complying With CAN-SPAM
Zelphyr writes "The Register is reporting on a study done by MX Logic found that of 1000 messages tested, only three complied with the recently enacted CAN-SPAM act. Little wonder why the spammers weren't shaking in their boots when this spam friendly anti-spam bill was passed."
It should have been called "CAN SPAMMERS", not "CAN SPAM" act.
SCO is not complying with the GPL ;^)
The Onion Version of the CAN-SPAM
Adapted from An Article on War Advisors on Yahoo
Bush CAN-SPAM advisors: unfound Reductions in Spam (RIS)matter little - Perle & Frum Jan 09, 2004
Two of President George W. Bush's CAN-SPAM advisors said that the US inability to find legal spam in cyberspace means little.
"I don't think that you can draw any conclusion from the fact that the stockpiles of complaint spam were not found," Pentagon advisor Richard Perle said at the American Enterprise Institute.
Perle said he did not fear that the United States would lose credibility after Bush used spammers supposed weapons of mass mailings of SEX-SPAM as his principal justification for going to war with spammers.
"If others are going to take the view that, because these Reductions in Spam - aka RIS - weren't found, nothing that the United States says can be trusted -- there's not much we can do about that," he said. "It would be a foolish conclusion to draw."
On Thursday, another Washington think-tank, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said in a report that the US "administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Spam and SEX-SPAM."
However, Perle said the war on cyberspace was justified: "I think that what was done was right and prudent."
Perle appeared with Robert Frum, the former Bush speech writer who coined "Axis of Liberals." They were two of the hardline members of the administration who argued the need to Can Spam by CAN-SPAM.
Perle and Frum's book, "An End to Evil," promotes the so-called neo-conservative use of military force to pacify the world including the cyberspace.
They take aim at Saudi Arabia, US politicians, journalists and France -- all of whom they said stand in the way of Bush's "War on Terror."
"What troubles us is a pretty persistent Open Relay Mail Servers policy of trying to weaken and marginalize the United States within cyberspace," Perle said.
"All we ask from Spammers is that, in the construction of Spam as a political and commercial tool, spammers think of themselves as a partner with the United States in the protection of Western civilization. That's not a lot to ask."
"Let me add, I think FSF runs the very great risk of becoming isolated."
Frum, who left the White House in 2003, was as unswerving as Bush himself.
"Sometimes the right answer, when a person has a grievance against you, is to say: 'You're completely mistaken; that grievance comes out of a completely wrong way of looking at the world and you're just going to have to get over it'," Frum said.
We're not going to change."
To see a world in a grain of sand, and then to step back and see the beach where the sand lies
- Pope found to be Catholic. - Scientists conclude sky is "blue". - Evidence found of bear defacating in woods.
I'd love to see someone try to argue this point of view to a judge with a straight face...
<voice ='Darl McBride'>Let me be the first to recommend David Boies; it's amazing the things he can argue with a straight face. For instance, did you know the GPL is unconstitutional?
Oh, and that'll be $699.00 for the advice....</voice>
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
A new study suggests that dictators are shown to be significantly more brutal than democratically elected officials, and big businesses usually fuck the consumer more over than small businesses.
What a fucking surprise!
(please excuse the irony).
Now when we've had spammers that doesn't care about anti-spam laws, I guess that we'll have greedy lawyers and lying politicians any day now...
Why not? If you want to punish someone who makes a living from computers, I think that would be very fitting. Of course, there's always voice recognition... maybe we'd better cut their larynxes out as well... But then they could strap a stick to their forehead and tap the keys with that... Oh, fuck it, let's just chop the bastards' heads off and be done with it.
Just another wannabe fantasy novelist...