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Re: Well, something will need to be done eventually.... CAN-SPAM wasn't designed to eliminate spam; it was designed to merely establish guidelines to be followed by those who send it. And that's all it's done. Those "high profile" cases were about spammers who violated the 'restrictions' (and I use the term loosely). As was said, making ALL spam opt-in would be a great first step. (Yeah, that'll happen.) |
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| The problem with those guidelines is that spammers by and large don't follow them. Every so often, the government will trot out a spammer to make an example of them, but ten other spammers rise to take his place. The government threatens fines and the spammers collectively shrug their shoulders. Many are overseas and thus outside of US jurisdiction. CAN-SPAM has been a complete failure.
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-Jason Levine
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1 edit | said by Jason Levine:...CAN-SPAM has been a complete failure. except for legitimizing a large percentage of spam (failure of design or failure of purpose? I wonder). I guess you could classify them as "spammers", versus the "scammers" who don't follow the guidelines (the ones who use bots/botnets to spew forth their crap into the world, the ones with no accountability for whom charging real money for sending email would have no effect whatsoever)--but they aren't even located in the U.S. (for the most part), so CAN-SPAM can't even touch them.
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