[steve-b]

What a crock.

[atomicpossum]

Congress. Out of it's depth on technical matters.

[sheltonmac]

About 70 percent of the world's e-mail messages continue to be spam. But the number is leveling off, which federal officials on Tuesday cited as evidence that a law enacted two years ago is working.

Now maybe they can get to work on a law protecting us from all the BS out of Washington.

[P-40]

cited as evidence that a law enacted two years ago is working.

Not to pee on their parade or anything...but the law is what you could kindly call a joke. The fight against spam is not going to be stopped by some feel-good legislation. Now if the FTC were to seriously go after the spammers, that might make a difference...but so far they have not done so. Yes, there has been a case or two in the news but that is about it. When the spammer gives you either their address or the address of the business they are spamming for...how hard is it to go after them?

[festus]

Crime has more or less leveled off too. Proof positive gun control works.

/sarcasm off.

[CFC__VRWC]

But the number is leveling off, which federal officials on Tuesday cited as evidence that a law enacted two years ago is working.

That must by why I deleted only 400 or so spam messages from my work e-mail on Monday.

[TommyDale]

The male enhancement messages must have been exempted by Congress, probably because they need it.

[Bender2]

You can forward spam e-mails to the Feds at Spam@uce.gov

[Lazamataz]

FTC Says Federal Spam Law Has Worked

I always liked Federal cheese.

I've never had Federal spam.

[Labyrinthos]

What a crock.

You are too nice. I still average about 50 spams a day on three seperate email addresses, despite having multiple spam filters. About half of them are from off-shore and do not comply with the "opt out" provision in the Federal Law. The other half are domestic, and while they comply with Federal Law, the burden is on me to spend/waste the time "unsubscribing" to something that I never subscribed to in the first place.