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As you may know, Con­gress recently passed the ‘CAN SPAM’ law which accord­ing to it’s best inten­tions pur­port­edly meant putting a stop to the vicious onslaught of SPAM email messages.

Yet, could this have been passed at the result of sim­ply look­ing good? Sort of like the Big Brother who could really care less of the sit­u­a­tion, but to make him­self look good he’ll intervene.

Techdirt writes, “It’s also becom­ing clear that the entire point of the bill was never to stop spam, but to make a few folks in Con­gress look good.”

Accord­ing to the arti­cle, it is also noted that “the NY Times reports that the spon­sors of the bill asked the FTC to sue a spam­mer the very first week the bill was in effect in order to make a big “splash” so they could pat them­selves on the back.”

For the moment, I couldn’t agree more. SPAM is an issue that sim­ply can­not be thwarted overnight. In order to get rid of SPAM we must cre­ate an action plan that would metic­u­lously destroy spam­mers world­wide. Devis­ing such a plan would not be easy and would result in many hours of research to com­bat the situation.

Could it be done? Yes, I believe so. There was a time when SPAM did not exist, when email was used as an effec­tive form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, which granted, it still is used today. It’s just mud­dling through the murky waters to get to your legit­i­mate mes­sages that takes time.

You know what we need? Raid for Spammers.