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Porn spammers ignore new labelling rule
Thursday, 27 May 2004, 15:07 GMT
Senders of pornographic spam are failing to comply with a new US rules that require a warning in the subject line. Spammers flooding the Internet with pornographic solicitations apparently are not abiding by a new federal rule that took effect last week. Not only did illegal sexually-explicit spam fail to slow down after the regulations took effect on 19 May, but pornographic email measured by one anti-spam company jumped from about 2 million messages in a 40-hour period last week to about 2.5 million during the same period this week.
The Can-Spam Act that President Bush signed in December required the Federal Trade Commission to come up with a label for unsolicited pornographic email. The FTC responded by declaring that anyone sending sexually oriented material must include the warning "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" in the Subject line. Violators face fines.
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