Re: How has the spam problem changed in the past decade?

Didn't CAN-SPAM reach for the idea that the email had to contain a
reasonable identfication of the sender. And some way to be removed
from future mailings?

That's not FUSSP but on the other hand it certainly defines one
problem with what a lot of people would call spam.

Also, there is the distinction between mechanism and policy, we don't
necessarily have to define spam here, only ways to deal with it when
you (anybody) define it.

I believe that's a much lower, and more achievable, standard to meet.

I'll also throw in that comment by a US SCOTUS justice regarding
pornography in Miller v US (this is all from memory pardon any errors)
which was "I can't define it but I know it when I see it!"

Perhaps not wholly satisfying, particularly since that context indeed
was policy and not mechanism, yet somehow useful.

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        -Barry Shein

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