President Bush Expected To Sign "CAN-SPAM": Anti-Spam Company Executives Available For Comment

(PRWEB) December 12, 2003

WHO: Audiotrieve, LLC, makers of InBoxer, is a leading-edge provider of anti-spam filtering software to consumers and enterprises. Its anti-spam products have been sold globally and have received editorial award recognitions including Editor’s Choice from Personal Computer World (December 2003).

WHAT: President Bush indicated he will sign the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003), which was approved by Congress on Monday. While few can disagree with the Act’s intentions, it is anticipated it will fall significantly short of consumer expectations.

PLEASE ATTRIBUTE THE FOLLOWING TO:

Roger Matus, Chief Executive for Audiotrieve, the makers of the InBoxer anti-spam filter:

“Don’t throw away your anti-spam filter. Since 83.5% of spam comes from disreputable sources that may skirt or ignore CAN-SPAM, you can expect to keep seeing most of the spam you see today.”

(An FTC study reported that only 16.5% of spam comes from sources that are legitimate advertisers offering legal products.)

“’CAN-SPAM will help because it tells legitimate e-mail marketers what they can and cannot do. It also gives tools to the government to fight those who flaunt the rules. But, it is clearly pro-business legislation that could increase the amount of mail you receive. If they abide by the rules, email marketers can send whatever they want. It wipes out many tougher state laws and protects mailers from law suits by individual email users.”

“The newly authorized Do-Not-Spam registry is dangerous for consumers. For it to work, the FTC would assemble the world’s largest list of valid e-mail addresses from trusting Americans. Then, it must make it available at no charge to anyone who asks or the list won’t work. Unfortunately, that means that overseas spammers also could get the world’s most complete list of valid American email addresses directly from the U.S. Government for free. The result will be less legitimate emails and more of the worst kind of spam.”

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FOR MORE INFORMATION: For additional quotes and questions, please contact Melissa Beck at 206-547-1089 or mbeck@inboxer.com.

About Audiotrieve and InBoxer

Audiotrieve, LLC (http://www.audiotrieve.com) creates products and services that sort, index and retrieve information that cannot be found easily using traditional means. InBoxer (http://www.inboxer.com), separates the email users want from the email they don’t. Planned offerings include services that help search engines, such as Yahoo! or Google, and multimedia companies to find the right content from within an audio or video stream. INBOXER is a trademark and AUDIOTRIEVE is a service mark of Audiotrieve, LLC. All other marks are property of their respective owners.