Spam law: How's it doing?

The FTC this week "struck the first blow against porn spammers by using provisions in the federal CAN-SPAM Act to convince a Nevada judge to freeze the assets of several companies and five men accused of spewing pornographic emails," InternetWeek.com reported. The law requires porn spammers to label their emails as such (so people wouldn't open them by mistake), and these companies had failed to do that. Here's an earlier article from the Washington Post explaining the law and why it's had mixed results. [See my 5/21 issue for a report on how much UK kids are exposed to porn spam at school.] Meanwhile, according to AOL, anyway, we're getting less spam overall now. "AOL also said [it] received 2.2 million spam complaints from its subscribers in November, down from 11 million for the same month a year ago," the Washington Post reported.