Tweaking the CAN-SPAM Act

rbochan writes "The Register is reporting that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is consulting on proposed changes to the CAN-SPAM Act. Changes would include clarifying the definitions of the terms person and sender, and altering the time allowed for a sender to to honor an opt-out request. The FTC proposal is available as a PDF on the official FTC site." From the article: "Critics have accused the Act of being narrow and weak, accusations that may be hard to deny given that the US sends more spam than any other, according to a recent report by anti-virus firm Sophos."

Comments

What if I connect to Chinese ISP from US?

[digilicius]

What if I connect to Chinese ISP from US? Or the other way round... who is to blame?

Re:No such thing

[mforbes]

I'm having fun being incredibly pedantic today. Therefore:

Soam: n. A chain by which a leading horse draws a plow.

What has that got to do with killing spam?

(in the reverse of the "I know I'll be modded down for this" precursor to posts we see too often on /., I'll say this: anyone with half a brain would never mod this up. It's not meant to be insightful, etc, and even to me is only barely funny. Go use your mod points on someone who deserves them.)