Spamming voters: political junk ease.

• Author: Taylor, Jeff A.
• Position: Citings - Brief Article

WHAT'S WORSE THAN spam? Political spam, the dirtiest, vilest form of spam. Campaign '04 is its coming-out party.

One spam-blocking firm, MailFrontier, predicts 1.25 billion unsolicited political e-malls will be sent to prospective voters by November. The group estimates that about 1 percent of all spam is political, usually in the form of surveys. But tracking from Symantec/Brightmail Probe Network found that political spam steadily increased during the election year, suggesting that it could make up 5 percent of all spam going into 2005. Such spare is exempt from the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act, which regulates only...