Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Bill
I don't receive spam mail on this server like I did in Fargo-Moorhead. Maybe
it is the size of the town in my case--spammers would go broke in Spamtown,
USA.
jackief
William J. Foristal wrote:
> [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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