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CAN-SPAM has been very successful in shutting down big bot nets and sending some of the biggest spammers to jail. Also this isn't a little annoyance, it's wast
by TomGullen 15y ago
CAN-SPAM has been very successful in shutting down big bot nets and sending some of the biggest spammers to jail.
Also this isn't a little annoyance, it's wasting time and resources for everyone just like email spam is. Daily me and some volunteers on my site spent time cleaning up the junk that these blackhats use.
- nostromo 15y agoThe goal was to reduce spam in inboxes, not to send people to jail and disrupt bot nets (which I presume are already illegal in most cases). So, judging by it's original goal, it has not been effective. (See other links in this thread.) Which is fine, because we have better solutions now anyway. Not that I don't share your frustration. I run a small wiki that was so overrun by spam I had to install reCaptcha. Now the few people that still try and spam are actually doing the public a service by transcribing books. :)