Fuck the CAN-SPAM Act to hell.

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2006-09-02 10:11pm

What a worthless piece of bullshit law.

Presumably, some imbecile at my university clicked on the 'To stop receiving emails, click here' link in a piece of spam they got. So instead of only getting a handful of unwanted emails (that are not considered unsolicited), and an ocasional unsolicited email, my account is now being flooded with spam, and there's nothing I can do. I can't even send the company an email from a John Doe account because any emails I send get bounced.

What's worse is that this shit is totally legal under CAN-SPAM of 2003. The rules actually open the doors for spammers instead of closing them like they should. This bullshit pisses me off.

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Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2006-09-03 03:57am

You actualy belived that legislation would help? HAHAHAHA *Points and laughs*

It was quite obvious when it was introduced that it would only work on the very, extremly naive spammers.

Spam filters are your friend - use them. Outlook has a pretty good one.

Also, if this wasn't your fault then your university must have a very poor naming scheme for accounts. Mine has name.familyname@faculty.hr, and spam almost always never expands beyond the first person that gets targeted since they have to guess a pretty large name to be sucsessful, and what little gets past it gets squashed by the filter. Of course, playing dead to those few mails that get thru is key for survival

Argosh · Post by **Argosh** » 2006-09-03 04:20am

Yep, filters are your friend. I filter in any e-mails I want, everything else goes to recycle-bin/the place for dead e-mails.