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Can Spam
The New York Times reports that the Can Spam Act isnt working very well. This was one of those things I wrote about back in the day before I found a real niche at the Prospect. Suffice it to say that it was always pretty damn clear the bill was a bad idea, but nobody in congress decided to pay much attention.
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Comments
Just fyi, I find that Cloudmark's SafetyBar (formerly SpamNet) works great.
Posted by: AlGore | Feb 1, 2005 11:58:35 AM
I think more to the point is not the inconvenience it is to the individual (although that has been the rallying cry to spur action) but the burden spam places on the system. With >50% of email traffic being unwanted consumer email, this means waste of resources and bandwidth as well as consumer time.
With the transaction cost for Internet access and to send 10 emails or 10^6 emails is negligible, it is a double edged sword: anyone can blog, podcast, email for essentially no cost. This also means anyone can spam and phish, set up dummy web sites, etc.
Posted by: bjd | Feb 1, 2005 1:27:52 PM
Remember when everyone was horrified by that email hoax that went around claiming that congress was considering placing a tax on every email to prop up the post office. Doesn't sound like such a bad idea now, does it?
Posted by: Freder Frederson | Feb 1, 2005 2:47:51 PM
The 'penny black' idea has been suggested by other parties in the past; paychains and hashcash have both been tossed out as ideas. This is particularly relevant because of the hidden spam cost. Spam is far more destructive from the ISP's perspective because it is effectively a perpetual DDoS - those letters consume a lot of bandwidth which is concentrated at the mail servers. It is effectively pollution.
Posted by: Mike Collins | Feb 1, 2005 3:10:51 PM
http://www.cosmoetica.com/B68-DES33.htm
A few years old, but still of some relevance. DAN
Posted by: Dan Schneider | Feb 1, 2005 10:37:33 PM
