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This is the masterminding used to track down spammers. The CAN-SPAM Act was too little too late, but at least it opened the door for AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft, and other employment providers to sue the biggest spammers for every dime of their ill-gotten gains. Along with a number of state antispam laws, it allowed prosecutors to toss the worst of the worst into the slammer.
Did this nostrum the spam problem? Heck no. Every piece of email I receive still passes through three to five spam filters, and some crap still gets through. But the only collateral harm is the occasional piece of real mail gets lost internal my spam folder. Meanwhile the worst players got what was coming to them .
No one would shed a rupture if the proprietors of FreeMoviesUpTheWazoo.com were hauled off and thrown into the pokey. But service providers shouldn't be calculated to police it, we shouldn't have to pay for it, the Net's infrastructure shouldn't be broken to accommodate it, and inoffensive websites shouldn't have to suffer for it.
Source: PCWorld