New virus warning

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:51:46AM -0700, Bill Campbell thus spoke:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> ...
> >The CAN-SPAM law has had the opposite effect as the quantity of
> >spam has gone up since the government made it legal to send spam
> >until you tell them to stop.   And a great many have been told
> >never to use the 'remove me from your list' as all that does is
> >legitmize the address.

> Anti-spammers have maintained that CAN-SPAM means anybody can
> spam.  Of course the main groups lobbying for this legislation
> were ones like the DMA that thinks opt-out is fine, and large
> ISPs who want a license to spam their customers for hire.

Yup.  They said this before the bill was passed, and the increase
in spam since the law went into effect has seemed to bear this out.
And it can embolden those who were holding off because of the
extremely strict laws in some states, which the CAN-SPAM bill
nullified by having the Federal law supercede all state laws.

And end users have no one to complain to, as the ISP has to be
the one initiating the complaint.

I'd say 'email your congressman' but it would probably get lost.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com