[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William J. Foristal) writes:
Hi Ron,
Are these unsolicited e-mail you're referring to? Or those stupid ads
that pop up and you have to click "No Thanks" to continue the sign on
process? I get those ads all the time, but no spam e-mail at all. I get
a few spam e-mail on juno, but not many.
Bill
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:19:12 -0800 "Ronald Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>"Ronald Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>Hopefully more states will follow this route. I tlooks like I could
>get
>rich quickly just reporting the Spam that arrives in my AOL account
>daily.
>Ron
>
>
>Locke signs `spam' bill; it's first such law in nation
>by Peter Lewis
>
>Seattle Times staff reporter
>
>Gov. Gary Locke yesterday signed into law a bill aimed at curbing
>unsolicited commercial bulk e-mail, popularly known as spam.
>As a result, Washington becomes the first state in the nation to have
>passed
>legislation that will curb, if not eliminate, what many e-mail users
>consider to be an annoyance or worse, according to California lawyer
>David
>Kramer.
>A recognized expert on Internet e-mail and legislative efforts to
>control
>it, Kramer has testified before a state House committee in favor of a
>tougher version of Washington's anti-spam bill. He also has
>collaborated on
>bills proposed in Congress and in four other states.
>The new law, which will take effect in 90 days, makes it a violation
>for
>spammers to send e-mail messages that hide their point of origin, mask
>the
>transmission path, or contain misleading information in the message's
>subject line.
>Spam, named after the often-derided Hormel meat product, usually
>contain
>such false information in their "headers," or address fields, and
>promote
>get-rich-quick schemes, miracle health cures or explicit pornographic
>material.
>The new law bans both sending e-mail with such deceptive header
>information
>from computers located in Washington, and sending such e-mail to an
>electronic mail address that the sender knows, or has reason to know,
>is
>held by a Washington resident.
>It puts the burden on the sender to find out whether the intended
>recipient
>lives in Washington.
>Individuals who receive such e-mail could collect up to $500 per
>violation;
>Internet service providers, the companies that provide computer users
>access
>to the Internet, could receive up to $1,000.
>Assistant State Attorney General Paula Selis yesterday said the state
>will
>aggressively enforce the new law, but she declined to elaborate,
>saying her
>office generally doesn't like to disclose its enforcement strategies.
>She
>called the new law "better than nothing."
>With the support of the Washington Association of Internet Service
>Providers
>(WAISP), Selis had drafted a more vigorous law that would have flatly
>banned
>sending spam - unless there was an existing relationship between the
>sender
>and the recipient, or the recipient had requested or consented to
>receive
>it.
>But powerful interests, including the Direct Marketing Association and
>Microsoft, testified against that version of the bill.
>Microsoft lobbyist Deborah Brunton said her company is "very concerned
>about
>unsolicited junk e-mail, but we also are a company that used
>legitimate
>e-mail practices to reach out to our customers." She said Microsoft
>was
>concerned that the bill's original language was ambiguous, and might
>have
>prohibited the company from developing new markets.
>Meanwhile, in his column posted on the Microsoft Web site yesterday,
>Chairman Bill Gates skewered spam, writing in part:
>"Wasting somebody else's time strikes me as the height of rudeness. We
>have
>only so many hours, and none to waste. That's what makes electronic
>junk
>mail and e-mail hoaxes so maddening."
>The new law also calls for creation of a three-member task force,
>consisting
>of two members of the House Energy and Utilities Committee and a
>person
>appointed by Locke, to identify technical, legal and cost issues
>related to
>spam, and to evaluate whether existing laws are sufficient to cope
>with it.
>It sets a Nov. 15 d
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>Meantime, WAISP executive director Gary Gardner said local Internet
>providers would review the new law when they gather April 17 at Bell
>Harbor
>Conference Center on the Seattle waterfront.
>
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>Everything they say. Everything they do.
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