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Can-Spam Act Can't Can Spam; Anti-spam vendors say the new law isn't slowing the torrent of electronic junk mail.

Publication: Information Week
Publication Date: 04-FEB-04
Format: Online - approximately 629 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Byline: Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News

A month after the federal Can-Spam Act went into effect, most anti-spam vendors say that the new legislation hasn't cut down on the glut of junk mail in users' in-boxes.

According to numbers released this week by Brightmail, Postini, and Commtouch, three providers of message-filtering and anti-spam solutions, the amount of spam they've intercepted since the law took effect on Jan. 1 has increased, went unchanged, or fallen by an insignificant amount.

Postini rolled out its January 2004 data on Wednesday, and said that new law or not,...

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