Virginia Anti-Spam Law; FTC Forum on Spam

kiwimate writes "According to this press release, the state of Virginia has just passed a statute making 'the worst, most egregious and fraudulent kinds of spam' legally actionable. And yes, this includes header forging. The article reads like a big AOL PR piece in some places -- the VA governor led the signing at the AOL HQ in Dulles. The story also states this comes on the eve of the first-ever FTC forum on spam in Washington D.C." The FTC also made the insightful discovery that most spam is fraudulent in some fashion.

Comments

Sic Semper Tyrannis

[sulli]

Will they drive a spear through the heart of the spammer? I would move back to Virginia just to be part of that.

Is their sample size really valid?

[psychosis]

The FTC studied a random sample of 1,000 unsolicited e-mails taken from a pool of more than 11 million pieces of spam it has collected.

OK, so were they planning to sample more than 3 typical e-mail accounts worth of daily spam?

Re:Going after header forgers?

[k-0s]

This is the one that's always gotten me. It's obviously one of the worst possible things in spam. But how do you then track down who happens to be sending it and punish them for it?

I don't know how you track them down personally but when you find out let me know and I can take care of the punishment part.

fraudulant?!?!?!

[edrugtrader]

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