--- From: "Sanford Olson" <solson@private> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@private> References: <20031121161312.A519@private> Subject: Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti-spam bill [sp] Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:38:46 -0600 Hi Declan, I'm no lawyer, and that is certainly a long document with all kinds of legalese.. But, my concern is "...as long as the messages are obviously advertisements with a valid U.S. postal address or P.O. box and an unsubscribe link at the bottom." - Most spam *messages* are already obviously advertisements. They just have misleading/misspelled subject lines. - Whose valid U.S. postal address? Anyone's? "1600 Pennsylvania Ave" is a good one to use. - Most spam already has an unsubscribe link at the bottom, but it is just used by the spammers to learn that the e-mail address was a good one and that the receipient is gullible. Regards, Sanford Olson --- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:38:05 -0600 To: hclp@private, Declan McCullagh <declan@private> From: Parks <parks@private> Subject: Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti-spam bill [sp] Is this the "camel's nose under the tent" end of internet anonymity, where the government ultimately requires everyone to have a valid internet account veified with a biometrioc ID? A "valid U.S. postal address or P.O. box" now reqiires an ID - thanks to CONgress. --- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:21:58 -0800 To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> From: Steve Schear <s.schear@private> Subject: Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti-spam bill [sp] Cc: cypherpunks@private, asrg@private At 04:13 PM 11/21/2003 -0600, Declan McCullagh <declan@private> wrote: >A copy of the bill is here: >http://news.com.com/pdf/ne/2003/FINALSPAM.pdf I interpret paragraph 1037(a)1 - 5 as possibly prohibiting the use of anonymous remailers, or proxies and nyms in registering email accounts, for the purpose of commercial speech. steve --- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:06:18 -0800 (PST) From: hypatia popol <heartofhearts2001@private> Subject: Re: [Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti-spam bill [sp] To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> I'm sorry Declan, I really don't see the difference than what spam I get now. I would have to open 20 to 40 spams a day and say "unsubscribe" which takes a long time the way they have it spamming me now. What is the difference? I don't know, I just don't see how it will help anything and I am in California. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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