Less Spam? Depends on How You Look at It
CIO, February, 2006 by Grant Gross
The Federal Trade Commission, the agency in charge of fighting spam, reported in late December that the problem of unsolicited e-mail is shrinking. “We’re making progress,” says Lydia Parnes, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection.
According to the FTC, antispam filtering technology and the two-year-old Can-Spam Act (under which the government has sued about 50 spammers) have cut down on the amount of spam.
Computer users and antispam vendors are not as cheery. “The FTC might be seeing less spam, but I’m not,” says Don Smutny, a website administrator and software developer. He says his employer uses spam-filtering technology. That catches about 75 percent of spam, but the total amount of spam coming into the company has not decreased.
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