Saturday, January 24, 2004

Are you getting less spam in your in-box since January 1?

My ISPs spam filter stops just as many pieces of junk email now as it did before January 1. There was a little drop in the quantity right after the first of the year, but now it looks like Can-Spam is having no effect at all. -- BB

With This Law, You Can Spam. The government's Can-Spam Act, which backers say will bring e-mail spam under control, is pilloried by California officials. All it has succeeded in doing is gutting much tougher state antispam measures, they say. Amit Asaravala reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]


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