# We're Winning the War On Spam?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-winning-the-war-on-spam/336570>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 21, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-winning-the-war-on-spam/336570 "2005-12-21T02:47:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-winning-the-war-on-spam/336570/1 "2005-12-21T02:47:57Z")

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[Judging by my inbox, I gotta disagree.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4547474.stm)

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> 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.
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> The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said internet users still disliked spam - but most got less than two years ago.
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> Spam filters and a 2003 US law allowing people to opt out of future mailings were helping cut the problem, it said.
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> However, the report warned spammers were improving their technology and the number of e-mail scams had risen.

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> 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.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-winning-the-war-on-spam/336570/2 "2005-12-21T02:56:39Z")

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

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-winning-the-war-on-spam/336570/3 "2005-12-21T04:31:21Z")

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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.