CAN-SPAM Is A Bust
Found on Slashdot on Friday, 06 August 2004
The Congressional chatter about 'canning spam', in the CAN-SPAM law since January, has turned out to really mean 'they can still spam'. TechWeb News reports that 'In July, compliance fell for the first time under one percent to a measly 0.54 percent', from its 3% max. The researchers claim the ball has been dropped by 'law enforcement'. Those police are probably too busy deleting the 80% spam from their email, like everyone else.
While we all know that this law was doomed since it was first mentioned (ok, except for some politicians who have no understanding of the Internet), it is still kind of amazing to see how doomed it is. Only 0.54%. I think even the mathematical probability for an accidental compliance should be higher than that.