Yes, despite what you’ve read recently in the news, Can-Spam legislature is working!
According to an article today on Clickz.com:
The FTC shut down six businesses and froze the assets of five individuals this week. All were behind the sending of sexually explicit spam. The sleaze factor is what made the headlines. What should make all you marketers, affiliates, e-mailers, and business owners sit up and take notice is what was buried several paragraphs down. Of all the individuals named in the suit, only one actually sent any spam.The others landed in legal hot water because they paid him to do it.
“It’s not just people who push the button to send the spam who can be held liable,” said Eileen Harrington, associate director of the FTC’s Marketing Practices Division.
Add that to the recent lawsuit filed last week:
The men allegedly set up a number of Nevada-based shell companies to distribute spam, according to the suit. Together, the companies made up the fourth largest illegal spam operation in the world, according to a statement by the Texas Attorney General.”We’re very excited by Attorney General Abbott’s action,” said Aaron Kornblum, internet safety enforcement attorney for Microsoft. “This set of defendants sent out tens of millions of illegal messages through our Hotmail (free Web-based email) system to our customers.”
Kornblum said Microsoft worked with the Texas Attorney General’s office for almost one year on the case.
And the AOL statistics through November 2004 that report
according to AOL members, spam has been drastically reduced in the past 12 months by over 75 percent.
and we may win the war on spam yet!
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