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California Bans Mobile Phone Spam

Posted by michael on from the you-don't-have-mail dept.

Argyle writes "News.com is reporting that California has banned the spamming of pagers and mobile phones with unwanted text messages."

4 of 119 comments (clear)

  1. State-law system. by Fantanicity · · Score: 4, Interesting


    So what does this ban?

    Californians in California spamming other Californians in California?
    Californians in California spamming other Californians anywhere?
    Californians in California spamming anyone in California?
    Californians in California spamming anyone anywhere?
    Californians anywhere spamming other Californians in California?
    Californians anywhere spamming anyone in California?
    Anyone in California spamming Californians in California?
    Anyone anywhere spamming Californians in California?
    Anyone in California spamming anyone in California?
    Anyone in California spamming anyone anywhere?

    And several other permutations?

  2. Re:Known Hosts by messiertom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Simple, it's only a few steps:

    1) Go to your menu
    2) Go to "Instant Messaging" (or whatever it's called)
    3) Scroll down to "Allow List"
    4) Scroll to "Add"
    5) Add the phone number of the cell-phone you wish to have call you.

    You could even just have it accept messages from all users, and have this "allow list" be an "advanced user" feature. It would of course, all be documented somewhere.

  3. Re:Email shall use whitelists by digitalsushi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    you're absolutely right. some of us implement this with procmail and various other filters already. it works 100% of the time. it is the future. now i'm going to spoil it. we'll all spend more time on keeping the white lists current than deleting spam.

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  4. Does anyone actually GET much cell phone spam? by Micah · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a Nokia 8250 with AT&T, and I've only gotten one or two "spams" from AT&T itself. Doesn't seem like it's a huge problem at this point...