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Anti-Spam Bill Killed In California

Posted by timothy on from the potted-meat-product dept.

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 ..."

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  1. Round up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 :-)

    1. Re:Round up by jpsst34 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought spam spam was human spam. Oh, wait... I'm thinking of soylent spam! Silly me.

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    2. Re:Round up by wo1verin3 · · Score: 3, Funny

      >> it'd be sweet revenge

      And an increase in the quality of their product.

  2. Whose Bill? by jasoncart · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Anti-Spam Bill Killed In California"

    Poor chap - we need all the anti-spam campaigners we can get.

  3. Executions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where is the part about executions? I bet Teaxs spammer laws would have spammer executions.

  4. Inadvertent my ass by siskbc · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ooops, it looks like I accidentally sent this email to 20,000 people on my spam list instead of my 5 established customers! How can that have happened? I'll make sure that doesn't happen until tomorrow at least!

    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?

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    1. Re:Inadvertent my ass by lynx_user_abroad · · Score: 3, Funny
      ...it basically gives each spammer one "freebie"...

      Hello, again, Your Honor. No, Sir, that wasn't me. I'm Joel_0x00000A71@spamhost.com but the spam in question came from Joel_0x00000A70@spamhost.com so clearly I can't be held responsible. Yes, Your Honor, It won't happen again. Um, Your Honor, if it pleases the Court, may we take a recess before we reconvene for the next case, we've been at this all morning and I've got to get something to eat before I appear here again for Public vs. Joel_0x00000A72@spamhost.com"?

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  5. Vikings... by Penguinshit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some where there is a small group of Vikings who are very pleased...

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    I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...

  6. From the Google News summary by SweetAndSourJesus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Debra Bowen, which was killed yesterday ...

    Man, this spam war is getting serious.

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  7. Voted down because... by rocco2nr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those old geezers like the good deals they're getting on viagra

  8. Defining "genius" . . . by Mikey-San · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step 1: Help shoot down anti-spam legislature.

    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 ... Right?

    I got nothing.

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    Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
  9. Re:Left hand doesn't know right hand? by Lane.exe · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's like they're trying to make money off of everyone at once! What kind of evil geniuses could do something so insidious as that?

    Oh... THOSE evil geniuses!

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    IAALS.
  10. Re:Wouldn't have helped by Delphiki · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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    Feel free to mod me "-1 - Angry Jerk".

  11. Re:FCC's do not call registry by osu-neko · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, compile a big list of email addresses, then give it to email advertisers? I'm sure that'll help...

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  12. Re:Another language Nazi emerges... by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  13. Why else... by neosake · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why else can't we mark those " msn member services " as spam?!!!

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  14. Googleloop by Dahamma · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...