New virus warning

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:51:46AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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.

And yet, for all that anti-CAN-SPAM (my *ghod*, what a stupid name)
bitching, the uptick in spam I'm getting lately (about 180 a day,
against 90 or so real messages) *is not spam protected by the Act*.

Go figure.

Cheers,
-- jra
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