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FTC Declares Can-Spam a Success

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the official-report-went-to-my-junk-folder dept.

TheSixth1 writes "ZDNet is reporting that the FTC announced in a recent report to Congress [PDF Warning] that the Can-Spam act is 'effective in providing protection for consumers.' The report boasts that the substantive provisions of the Act have mandated adoption of a number of commercial email "best practices" that many legitimate online marketers are now following. Second, the Act has provided law enforcement agencies and ISPs with an additional tool to use when bringing suit against spammers. The more than 50 cases brought to date by the FTC, the Department of Justice, state Attorneys General, and ISPs demonstrate CAN-SPAM's enforcement efficacy."

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  1. That explains it... by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was wondering why we all stopped getting spam.

  2. There's a precedent... by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Mission Accomplished!"

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  3. Pen0r by DavidLeeRoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to my inbox, I could have a penis 4 miles long that can be as thick as a tree. i also have tons of hot 18yo babes just wanting to be with me :) I guess its not spam anymore and its real, the success of this act says so!!

  4. Text of letter to Congress by loggia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Members of Congress:

    I am Mrs. Branson, a wife of embattled President of war torn
    Liberia, Mr. Branson. My husband just stepped down as President
    of Liberia some months ago, but matters were not helped when UN
    Special War Crimes Court for Sierra Leone indicted my husband
    for war crimes in June last year, demanding his prosecution.

    Currently I and my husband have been granted asylum in Nigeria,
    but I relocated my two sons immediately in July 2003 to Sao Tome
    (a small oil rich island off the coast of West Africa).

    Early last year, he entrusted some large quantities of diamonds
    to me. He told me if anything happened to him, I should use it
    to take care of myself. Fearing its detection due to the volume,
    my son (Williams) traveled to South-Africa with the diamonds...

  5. Oh ye of little faith! by lheal · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was wondering why we all stopped getting spam.

    How could you doubt the government who brought you the DMCA (which has virtually eliminated software and music piracy), capital punishment and gun control (which together have virtually eliminated murder and other violent crime), and mandatory car insurance (which has virtually eliminated insurance industry bankruptcy)?

    I find your lack of faith disturbing.

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