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CAN-SPAM Is A Bust

Posted by timothy on from the hundreds-per-day-here dept.

Doc Ruby writes "The Congressional chatter about 'canning spam', in the CAN-SPAM law since January, has turned out to really mean 'they can still spam'. TechWeb News reports that 'In July, compliance fell for the first time under one percent to a measly 0.54 percent', from its 3% max. The researchers claim the ball has been dropped by 'law enforcement'. Those police are probably too busy deleting the 80% spam from their email, like everyone else."

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  1. Technology hasn't stepped up to the plate... by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I really think my tax dollors could be spent on something better..like maybe giving it back to me.

    I don't want to hear any more right-wing whining about getting tax dollars back until the federal debt is paid down. I don't want my taxes to be wasted to pay for interest on a debt accrued largely by fiscally irresponsible Republicans like Reagan, Bush, and the younger Bush.

    spam is a techinical problem that can be solved through technical means.

    THEN FUCKING SOLVE IT ALREADY! We've had this problem for a decade and people like you keep saying that technology can solve it. So invent the technology, get support for it, get it deployed, and solve the problem. You're watching people drown in spam and you keep telling us that the government should do nothing because you're planning to pull a technical solution out of your ass. Some day.

    Anything else is just an excuse to have government regulate computer use.

    I think that the government should regulate computer use so that idiot conspiracy theories like yours don't waste bandwidth and storage on the net.