Mushy spam law's IDEAL for toothless watchdog: Spamhaus slams CAN-SPAM

  • 22 September 2014
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By John Leyden, 22 Sep 2014
 
Antispam organisation Spamhaus has reacted phlegmatically to a recent survey that one in 10 of the world’s largest online retailers are still violating the CAN-SPAM Act, a full 10 years after the US anti-spam legislation went into effect.
Richard Cox, CIO of The Spamhaus Project, suggested the Online Trust Alliance (OTA)'s figures of one in 10 e-tailers failing to abide by CAN-SPAM because of failures in honouring unsubscribe requests is probably optimistic.
 He also said he believed the law was skewed against private spam victims, whom he said had no legal right of redress under the legislation.
"Looking across our thousands of spamtrap addresses, none of which have ever opted in to any e-tailer, what we see suggests that their 10 per cent may be, ehrm, somewhat optimistic - even in terms of CAN-SPAM compliance," Cox told El Reg
 
 
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/22/spam_compliance_survey_spamhaus_response/

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