MS Speaks Out Against New Zealand's Anti Spam Bill

out_sp0k1n writes "Ryan Hamlin, head of Microsoft's Technology Care and Safety Group spoke out against New Zealand's proposed anti-spam legislation, warning that it could impinge on 'the amazing vehicle of e-mail marketing'. He also suggests that CAN-SPAM has been effective in deterring spammers. From The Article: 'Though often criticized as too meek, US anti-spam legislation - which relies on people opting out of spam - has proved effective in supporting prosecutions and deterring spammers.' Anyone else think that one message doesn't count as spam?"

Comments

Just Curious...

[bobsacks]

Has anyone on here actually ever bought anything from one of these mass market emails? I myself haven't, and I don't know anyone off hand who has. What I wonder is how they stay in business. Money has to be coming in from somewhere.

Re:Once I signed up for Hot Mail... got spam inste

[benji fr]

I once signed up for a Hot Mail Account, years ago and never used it,

Please don't forget that hotmail.com (as many other well-known domains) receive many spam from so-called "dictionnary attack" : the spammer try every email starting at "a" and going through to "zzzzzzzzzz" ... It's not that hard for them, and as the famous hotmail.com domains grow, they can touch more and more users.