CAN-SPAM Can't Slam Spam [View All]

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CAN-SPAM Can't Slam Spam


By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News

A year after it went into effect, the federal CAN-SPAM Act is a "miserable" failure, a messaging security firm that monitors compliance with the anti-spam legislation said Tuesday.
"CAN SPAM has done a miserable job," said Scott Chasin, the chief technology officer of Denver, Colo.-based MX Logic.

For 2004 as a whole, said Chasin, an average of just three percent of unsolicited e-mail complied with the legislation's requirements, which ranged from legitimate return addresses to a way to opt-out of further messages.

"Clearly has had no meaningful impact on the flow of spam," said Chasin. "In fact, the volume of spam increased in 2004 and we fully anticipate continued growth in 2005." Throughout 2004, MX Logic measured spam as accounting for 77 percent of all e-mail traffic.

Not only is CAN-SPAM not working, it "was never designed to work," said Chasin. "CAN SPAM was design to regulate e-mail marketing, it was never designed to actually 'can spam......

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