Category: Spam

A few things happened this week in the fight against invasive marketing. Foremost is the announcement that the very first arrests under the federal CAN-SPAM act have been made. Arrest warrants were issued for four spammers in the Detroit area on the grounds that they sent fraudulent emails hawking weight loss pills, though two of… Continue reading Bureaucrats Finally Starting to Get It

I haven’t yet weighed in on this briskly-debated issue since everyone else is doing a pretty good job covering the ground. For those who don’t know what the fuss is all about: Two months ago California then-governor Gray Davis signed into law a bill which would make unsolicited commercial email illegal. This law would require… Continue reading YOU-CAN-SPAM Federal Law vs. California Spam Ban

I have occasionally, and ironically, received spam advertising anti-spam solutions. The most amusing was one about a year ago that asked me to send $5 to a P.O. box in Los Angeles. How that was supposed to stop me from getting more spam I have no idea. That one was forwarded to the FTC. But… Continue reading Anti-spam Spam