Why do they keep sending me this garbage?
Spammers continually send email with different subjects and offers in order to entice users to buy their products. Many of these products are; fakes and knock-offs or potentially dangerous to the purchaser. Due to the low cost of sending spam, even with the extremely...
Where does spam come from? Why?
Unlike direct mail or telemarketing, email spam has very low per-message cost. In many cases spammers have almost no cost because they are sending email through other people's computers that are infected with a worm or virus, which causes others to bear the cost...
Welcome to CAUCE North America
CAUCE North America Debuts - New anti-spam advocacy group combines CAUCE Canada and CAUCE US Montreal and Los Angeles, June 06, 2007 -- Neil Schwartzman, chair of CAUCE Canada, and Scott Hazen Mueller, chair of CAUCE U.S., today announced the formation and launch of...
Spam has changed, and so must CAUCE
We were shocked, not so very many years ago, when AOL reported that spam was 30% of their incoming mail. Now, some of the world's largest ISPs report that it's well beyond 80% -- in some cases higher -- and increasing.Back then we knew who the spammers were,...
CAUCE Accepting New Members
CAUCE North America wishes to announce the launch of a new support program, now featuring many levels of individual and organizational membership for those wishing to actively assist with our important work and goals. CAUCE actively advocates on behalf of consumers to...
You talk about Costs. What costs? My email is unlimited…
You may pay a fixed price for "unlimited" service, but that doesn't mean your ISP's costs are limited. In fact, the question of cost highlights the flawed assumptions by those who engage in junk email marketing, and those who defend it.It is not...
What can I do about child pornography spam?
According to the US Customs Service: "There is no easy formula for discovering and identifying a consumer or purveyor of child pornography. However, if you have information about or suspect this type of illegal activity, contact the U.S. Customs Service as soon...
Can’t you solve the spam problem by requiring ‘ADV’ (or some other tag) in the subject line?
If every piece of spam had a tag or a label (such as "ADV:") in the subject line, it might be easier to delete, but does that save you the time and money downloading the spam in the first place?What if you make a long-distance call (as many millions of...
What are you whining about? Just hit DELETE and be done with it!
When the <DELETE> key reimburses people for the costs incurred from transporting, storing, and retrieving unsolicited email, then simply clicking <DELETE> might be a viable alternative. Unfortunately, the vast majority of costs of spam are borne by...
Won’t the spammers just go offshore?
It is true that many laws can't effectively reach people who are operating completely outside the country, there are two things to remember:First, because most spam advertises goods or services offered by North American-based entities (for example, get-rich-quick...
Isn’t stopping spam a violation of the Free speech?
Not at all. CAUCE believes in the right to free speech, but having free speech doesn't spammers the right to force others to hear their message. CAUCE does not support the outlawing of commercial speech, but CAUCE does believe that those who wish to engage in...
Why am I getting bounces about mail I didn’t send?
Recently, there have been a lot of unsolicited bounces from ISPs which are created due to the following chain of events: Spammer uses an infected computer on an ISP network (zombie) to send spam Spam is sent with a forged sender address (aka. From), that is not hosted...
