Can-Spam Act
IC 3
Unsolicited Commercial Emails
There are in place laws covering
any and or all electronic communications. Some of those are federal, others being state enforceable. For example, here in WV, I could legally and lawfully bill up to $1,000 USD for each piece of spam. Doubtful I'd see anyone remit payment, though.
One trick I like doing is having the FTC's spam reporting
address handy as a contact. Get spam I think borders on being dangerous, forward it to the
FTC, headers and all. Then I delete my spam too. That seems the most usual case, just delete it all.
Now, I could set up my
own email server here at home. Just not been keen on the extra work that would entail. If I did, there's plenty of
software handy to pretty much annihilate any damn spam.
Got
EXIM 4 already installed as default for home server, not that I use it much. It spools any malicious "cracking" attempts at our network. I get to chuckle at script kiddies trying to root my server/dummy machine.
Belly laughs seeing my government working buddy try. I've owned him a few times over the years, just leaving a "
Here" document. "Hi, tag you're it."
He knows it's me, I don't clear a certain ACL file. If I so desired, I would and go unnoticed. But, ... big
BUT if I did that, it would step over the ethical, legal, lawful line. So I don't, not ever. Used to work as government employee, hm, still do.