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.

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