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Anti-Spam Bill Killed In California
Craig Newmark (craigslist) writes "In California, we had a pretty good antispam bill proposed by Sen. Debra Bowen, which was killed yesterday.
A pro-spammer bill, backed by the big media sites including Microsoft, passed through committee.
Here's a quick round up.
We're considering a big feedback campaign, based on conversation with staffers on what works for them, since they want to hear from constituents, as opposed to spam.
More to come ..."
the spammers and send them to Hormel to be converted to canned meat.
:-)
I'm sure Hormel wouldn't object; it'd be sweet revenge
Poor chap - we need all the anti-spam campaigners we can get.
Where is the part about executions? I bet Teaxs spammer laws would have spammer executions.
An anti-SPAM bill? I'll admit their product is a bit tasteless, but do we really need federal protection against shoulder meat?
The only good thing is it basically gives each spammer one "freebie" - surely a court won't believe they KEEP "inadvertently" sending spam. Will they?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Some where there is a small group of Vikings who are very pleased...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Debra Bowen, which was killed yesterday ...
Man, this spam war is getting serious.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Those old geezers like the good deals they're getting on viagra
Step 1: Help shoot down anti-spam legislature.
... Right?
Step 2: Advertise that since spam is out of control, you're going to do everything in your power to help stop it, both in preventing spam from hitting your users and telling the government it needs to be stopped.
Step 3: Profit
I got nothing.
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
Oh... THOSE evil geniuses!
IAALS.
What if someone rich in Romania or China needed to use your bank account to hide millions of dollars in to protect from an impending coup d'etat and was willing to split it with you?
Feel free to mod me "-1 - Angry Jerk".
What, compile a big list of email addresses, then give it to email advertisers? I'm sure that'll help...
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
You got Spam!
You of course mean "Who's Bill?", short for "Who is Bill?"
No, he certainly meant "whois bill" which is a malformed query to see who has registered "bill.com"
And, FWIW, bill.com is for sale by a domain squatter.
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But passing a "State Bill" will have no effect on the high traffic of spam. Since, IMHO, spammers are outside of the US and find some dumbass IT guy that leave Port 25 wide open for relay use, and Spammers use that server (instead of their own) to send their spam mail. How are you going to stop that!?!?!? There are many many dumbasses out there!!!
The only true way to stop spam is to have international laws. That allows countries to send there own force to weed out the bad guys, or at least hold the Governments responsible. If the UN had any balls , this could be a reality!!! Have them setup a task force, just for this reason. To stop Spam........if Spam bothers you...Me thinks it's funny.....
It's left blank because I have nothing to say to you punks!
Why else can't we mark those " msn member services " as spam?!!!
"When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a frisbee"
Notice that as of this writing the Google "roundup" referenced in the story has the story itself as the second link... the consequences of this to "PageRank" are now mindboggling...
I can't believe that Anti-Spam Bill was killed in California. I was just talking to him the other day! The world will surely miss Bill and his anti-spam efforts.