New Laws Will Make Spam Worse
Dinah Greek,
VNU.net,
Jan 09, 2004
In my predictions paper a couple of weeks ago I said that new anti-spam laws would effectively legalize spam, making it worse. The laws are in effect now, and the early result is that they are making spam worse. "The US Can Spam Act became law on 1 January, but US email security company Postini saw the proportion of spam rise from 74 per cent in December to 84 per cent within the first couple of days of the new year." I'd like to take some credit for this prediction, but as predictions go, it was a pretty easy one to make. This failure of the legal approach will now force people to think more seriously about a technological solution.
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