Michigan Governor Signs Anti-Spam Bill

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 16, 2003 @02:32AM from the we-hates-it dept.

mrtaco01 writes "Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signed today a law billed as the 'toughest in the nation' against spam. It makes it law in Michigan that all unsolicited email contain 'ADV:' as the first four characters in an email, contain contact information and a way to opt-out of subsequent mailings. Violations are subject to a $10,000 fine. The press release announcing the new law is found here. It will be interesting as to how this law has any effect on laws in other states or even possibly a federal anti-spam law. It will be more interesting to how well the State enforces this,or how it will be enforced."

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This does not solve the problem by AngryPuppy · 2003-07-16 03:09 · Score: 3, Insightful

There are still servers that have to store the UCE until it gets filtered, not to mention the extra traffic that is generated. Ultimately, consumers are still the ones footing the bill for this garbage as provider pass their costs on for the extra server space and bandwidth needs. All this does is provide an easier filtering tool. It does not stop them from sending it in the first place... something I never opted-in to in the first place.