On 2022-05-19 at 09:58:37 UTC-0400 (Thu, 19 May 2022 09:58:37 -0400) Luis E. Muñoz via mailop <mailop@lem.click> is rumored to have said:
IIRC, there is (was?) a "National Do Not Call List" implemented in the US at the federal level. Telemarketers and other organizations are required by law to scrub their own lists against this federal registry. This has not made a dent in the amount of spam calls that I get on my various lines.
It has definitely changed the character of 'spam' calls. Before the d-n-c list, it was fairly common to get cold-called by essentially legitimate businesses. It has been years since I got one of those.
This has relevance to email spam. As overall spam has declined over the past few years, criminal-grade spam has become a bigger slice of spam. It has gotten easier and safer to get a 99.9% catch rate over time. I.e. what the d-n-c list did for phone calls, spam-filtering has done for mail.
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