Wed, 21 Dec 2005

CAN-SPAM working - FTC

SPAMThe only kind of canned SPAM I know of that's "working" is pictured at left. My traps and filters are catching roughly three times the amount of SPAM they caught in 2003 - and more of it is actually getting through them and into my inbox than ever before.

Legal action and email filtering are helping to minimise the nuisance of spam, according to US federal regulators. In a report to Congress on the effectiveness of the US Federal CAN-SPAM Act, the Federal Trade Commission concludes that technology has reduced the amount of junk email reaching consumers' in-boxes. Meanwhile rigorous law enforcement has had a deterrent effect on spammers. "Consumers are receiving less spam now than they were receiving in 2003" when the CAN-SPAM Act was enacted, the FTC concludes.

(link) [The Register]

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On 12/21/2005 21:34:02
Walter Jeffries wrote

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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