New virus warning

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
...
>The CAN-SPAM law has had the opposite effect as the quantity of
>spam has gone up since the government made it legal to send spam
>until you tell them to stop.   And a great many have been told
>never to use the 'remove me from your list' as all that does is
>legitmize the address.

Anti-spammers have maintained that CAN-SPAM means anybody can
spam.  Of course the main groups lobbying for this legislation
were ones like the DMA that thinks opt-out is fine, and large
ISPs who want a license to spam their customers for hire.

Bill
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