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Matt Kettler writes: > But the reality of the numbers won't stop the FTC from tooting it's own > horn and claiming victory.. Unfortunately for us, this will likely result > in some major spammers unleashing a mass-scale deluge just to show they're > wrong. The best I think we can hope for is that a few of them might get > reckless in this endeavor and get nailed. by the way note that the FTC did *NOT* say this. The news stories didn't quite emphasise the real points. The FTC report ( http://www.ftc.gov/reports/canspam05/051220canspamrpt.pdf) actually said: The Commission believes that the Act has been effective in achieving two desired outcomes. First, the substantive provisions of the Act have mandated adoption of a number of commercial email 'best practices' that many legitimate online marketers are now following. Second, the Act has provided law enforcement agencies and ISPs with an additional tool to use when bringing suit against spammers. It has indeed been successful in those two, very limited, areas. Other approaches -- such as filters -- have probably had much more of an effect overall, though. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFDqbRvMJF5cimLx9ARArq/AJ9vZEVInF702rlO2CiskhIDqXhy5gCgndUA HQiunkjvGC9k8ayzM9kMEmg= =zJxq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
