It was a day of victory, according to many. The famous anti-spam law was signed in December, 2003. Everyone who supported the law said it will help achieve the results sought by almost the majority of the people who were victims of spam. However, more than two months into the law, and there is more spam than there was before the law was signed.

As I had said before, the spammers are now actually rejoicing, sending so much spam that you’d wish that no one sent you any important email, so that you could delete everything in your inbox than to sort through it everyday, looking for one important email out of more than two hundred emails. More ironic is the fact that all these spammers are happily identifying themselves, telling users that they can unsubscribe through snail mail or an email. Of course, majority of the snail mail addresses are postal boxes, so you can find who they actually are and the post office will not release any records without a government investigation in progress.

Below is an example of including the address and contact information as a way of saying “We are not doing anything wrong”; let this be a lesson to everyone who jumps on wagon to every law signed by someone you like. Think before you act, and think about the action itself. This law is so far not effective; period. Hopefully it will be over time, with a miracle of course.