JUNK EMAILER
Formerly the world's most notorious spammer, Sanford Wallace has stepped down from his throne. Hounded by activists and lawsuits filed by ISPs, Wallace hoisted the white flag last April and reinvented himself as an antispam crusader. Wired asked him to weigh in on the new email laws.
Will the new laws curtail the growth of spam?
Between California's law, Washington State's antispam law that took effect last summer, and vigilante efforts on the Net, spammers are going to have a hard time.
Do they even know these laws exist?
They do. Washington State's law ended spammers' carefree days. Most of the big players understand the law. And the small players - the people who have $200 bulk-email software - their service providers are cutting them off so quickly that it's becoming impossible to operate.
But won't spammers continue finding loopholes?
There is absolutely no place where one can spam now without violating an ISP's terms of service. If there were a way to pull it off, I probably would have found it a year ago. And you better believe I looked.
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