An unsolicited e-mail arrives in your in-box from Marc Racicot, chairman of the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign, asking you to donate “using our secure server,” a total of $2,000, $1,000, or a smaller sum, to keep TV ads exposing John Kerry’s miserly defense spending record on the air. Political spam, like this message, is exempt from prohibitions passed late last year by the Congress in the CAN-SPAM Act. In fact, experts tell TechNewsWorld that since the dawn of the law on January 1st, spam e-mail has increased dramatically.
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Spam Proliferation Continues Despite Federal Law
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski March 19, 2004 07:45 AMAn unsolicited e-mail arrives in your in-box from Marc Racicot, chairman of the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign, asking you to donate “using our secure server,” a total of $2,000, $1,000, or a smaller sum, to keep TV ads exposing John Kerry’s miserly defense spending record on the air. Political spam, like this message, is exempt from prohibitions passed late last year by the Congress in the CAN-SPAM Act. In fact, experts tell TechNewsWorld that since the dawn of the law on January 1st, spam e-mail has increased dramatically.