Tuesday, December 20, 2005

FTC's News That Spam is Declining Meets Skepticism

I surely haven't noticed any decline in the amount of spam I get in my in-box every day...

An AP newswire article by Jennifer C. Kerr, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Those annoying "spam" e-mails for Viagra or low-rate mortgages that clog computer users' mailboxes appear to be on the decline, federal regulators said Tuesday.

In a report to Congress, the Federal Trade Commission said the anti-spam law that took effect two years ago has helped curb unsolicited e-mail. The report also credits advances in technology, such as better spam filters that weed out junk e-mail.

The report was met with some skepticism.

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