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Can Spam Act is Just Window Dressing
posted by mpawlo on Wednesday June 16, @02:37PM
from the spam-everywhere dept.
News Thomas C Greene of The Register comments on the U.S.CAN-SPAM Act and the recent approach (as reported by Greplaw) from the FTC to advice against a central nix registry.
Greene states:

'It appears that the CAN-SPAM Act is destined to remain an example of legislative window dressing - the sort of useless law that Congress passes periodically to create the impression that it cares about issues that ordinary people care about. But as a tool for cutting down on spam, it's practically worthless.'

Read more in The Register.

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