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I believe certain bodies are trying to develop new sorts of e-mail systems which verify the origin of the e-mails that you receive. Considering that a lot of spam comes from spoofed e-mail addresses i think this would be a step in the right direction to de-anonymise (if thats a word) the spammers. I guess this could then be used as a basis for more stringent anti-spam rules and blocking lists. At the moment very little has been done to address the problem of spam on a worldwide level and the CAN-SPAM act, as cute an acronym as it may be, is really just a way of paying lip service to the problem. I just hope that the big corporations dont take things into their own hands before the polititians figure it out because we might have to start paying for more proprietary solutions. Worst case scenario, a charge-per-email.
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