TromboneAl
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The effect of the government's efforts to limit spam is a good example of the problems with government.
They passed the CAN-SPAM act, but it was worthless due to congress' concessions to the advertising industry. It had absolutely no effect on spam.
I realize that the international nature of spamming makes it difficult to solve the problem, but if they'd passed a law that said, essentially:
"Unsolicited commercial email is illegal"
Perhaps that law would have had a chance.
Current State of Spam
They passed the CAN-SPAM act, but it was worthless due to congress' concessions to the advertising industry. It had absolutely no effect on spam.
I realize that the international nature of spamming makes it difficult to solve the problem, but if they'd passed a law that said, essentially:
"Unsolicited commercial email is illegal"
Perhaps that law would have had a chance.
Current State of Spam