Friends of spam.
American Prospect, The, January, 2004 by Yglesias, Matthew
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> WITH THE DAWNING OF the new year, e-mail users will find their inboxes subject to the benevolent hegemony of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act. Rarely has there been such an appropriately ambiguous legislative moniker because, according to Kenneth DeGraff of Consumers Union, rather than canning spam, the law "tells marketers that [they] can spam." The bill has two main provisions, one of which directs the Federal Trade Commission to study the creation of a "do not spam" e-mail list similar to the popular ...
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