The Can Spam Act Doesn’t Work

What good is it?

I am a man of many pet peeves. Having to sort through emails I don’t want or didn’t ask for is one of them. There is one type of email that annoys me more than any other — solicitations for money from politicians.

The pols gave themselves an out in the Can Spam Act. Rules for thee but not for me sort of thing.

I used to donate to politicians I can actually vote for. It was usually $25 before the primary and another $25 before the general election. I did it online and used my real email. That was my mistake.

Daily I am obliged to unsubscribe from the beggar emails from not only my preferred political party, but from the other party and the innumerable PACs and special interest groups involved in politics. My email address seems to have been sold hundreds of times. Sometimes they don’t unsubscribe you and at other times, there is no unsubscribe option. Often you are only unsubscribed from a category of email they send you.

They are like Nigerian scammers. Relentless. Scripted. Not on the up and up.

They call me Glenn and Friend. They tell me my donation will be x(Matched) if I donate today. I’ll have a lottery chance to dine with them (and a few hundred others). They’ll whine about missing their [weekly, monthly, quarterly] goals if I don’t donate right away. A great many are Chicken Littleesque. Why, if I don’t donate, the other guy might win and what a terrible thing will happen to my life. Their psychological…