CAN-SPAM Can’t

Congress has to defend too many vested interests – campaign contributors – to ever really pass an effective anti-spam law. From an editorial:

CAN-SPAM does give the government and private industry a legal framework to go after spammers in the United States, says Gregg Mastoras, Sophos senior security analyst. However, Mastoras believes that CAN-SPAM suffers from a major flaw: It allows a business to send commercial e-mail until a recipient opts out and tells the sender to stop. Mastoras says that until marketers have to get your express permission before they can send you their pitches, spam will continue to be a problem.

Others, including [Jordan] Ritter, don’t feel that laws can ever effectively fight spam, even within the United States. “It takes laws years to become effective. It takes days or weeks for the newest Internet e-mail threat to wreak havoc,” Ritter says.

FTC releases progress report on Congress’s antispam law, but some experts are not impressed

Originally posted 2006-06-03 08:34:28. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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