Re: Is the Can-Spam Act is working?

In a word, "No."  It does not work, all it's done is make the spammers smarter, and the spam more devious.

There are some legit advertisers that will unsubscribe an unwilling recipeint, but that's because the cost of e-mail is a part of their legit operating expenses.

 A SPAMMER,  has no legit operating expenses except the spam, and he only needs a few suckers to pay his bills.  The rest is ill-gotten-gains.  The problem is it's like shoveling against the tide.  The spammers make $$$, and they pay the ISP's for bandwidth, so there's no incentive to shut it down.  In fact the ISP's would prefer to have is uniformly distributed around the clock, then they could increase their total receipts by increasing the total GBits/day.