We're Winning the War On Spam?

[Tuckerfan]

Judging by my inbox, I gotta disagree.

The number of unsolicited e-mails received in the US appears to be falling thanks to new laws and better technology, a government report says.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said internet users still disliked spam - but most got less than two years ago.

Spam filters and a 2003 US law allowing people to opt out of future mailings were helping cut the problem, it said.

However, the report warned spammers were improving their technology and the number of e-mail scams had risen.

Surveys also showed users were becoming more tolerant of spam, seeing it as “an acceptable nuisance rather than a cause for abandoning e-mail”.

What planet are these people on? I still chuckle over that Russian spammer who got his skull staved in.

[RealityChuck]

At best, this is just another lull. Spam is too profitable and new methods of spamming will continue to evolve.

[asterion]

Look, whatever else we all might think of the administration, I think we can all fully get behind the transportation of spammers to Eastern Europe to be tortured by listening to music Iran has banned.

Until then, I just am thankful the spam filters I have seem to work really well.