Re: Is the Can-Spam Act is working?

I'm not really under the impression that most of these operations are in the US, so US laws aren't really going to impact them anyway. Then what's the solution, regulation of incoming internet traffic? I sure hope not.

Actually, I think the best solution is already in action. Good spam filtering. For example, I use Gmail when ever I can, and Thunderbird when ever I'm limited to a client-side app. Both have brilliant spam filtering. Some gets through, sure, but most doesn't.

And what happens when most spam doesn't get viewed? It loses value to it's originator. You see the same thing happen with particular flavors of spam as the public gradually realizes what they're looking at. The only way to definitively get rid of spam is to decrease the number of people opening and reading it. If you don't read it, you can't give them your money, and they dry up.