Adaere's Journal: Spam and the Legislation That Loves It

After reading this article at The Weekly Standard, I am beginning to see that Spam (unsolicited junk email, not cross-posting or the canned meat-like substance) is seen by many as just too bad to not legislate in some ineffectual manner. I don't receive much junk email, but I attribute that to Yahoo's filters. This writer doesn't think much of technological solutions, but I wonder has he heard of this?

On a lighter note, why is this article at Slashdot filed under YRO when it's about spam?