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Louisiana Tries Anti-Spam Law
chompyZ writes "The legislative battle against SPAMMING heats-up as a new law became effective yesterday in Louisiana. According to KPLC, the new law requires senders of sexually explicit e-mail to include a note in the subject line, "adv-adult," to let unsuspecting internet users know ahead of time. The Olympian reports that Louisiana officials actually think this will be effective... leaves you wondering if "officials" have any clue how SPAMMERS operate..."
Now subjetcs will be
adv-adult: Enlarge your penis
Way to go, I just don't know if this way leads somewhere:)
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Subject: adv-4dult
Body:
Fr33 g0at pr0n c!ick h3re!
I'm waiting to see how futile an http://donotspam.gov would be.
Hard loop..... huh?
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At least spammers operating inside the U.S. will be a little nervous when they get several notifications from lawyers after it was traced back to them. Bouncing emails off of or originating from foreign mail servers may be effective for not being able to do anything at the ISP level but if they are caught in their apartment standing in a room full of penis enlargement pill cases where the law can reach them at a business level..... They'll probably wish they hadn't sold it to all those prisoners who are winking & saying "you're my little puppy now".
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Check out my webcam!
You can't mod me down! I had adv-adult in the subject line!
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because spam tastes horrible in gumbo.
If it's legislated to a single header I think it would be more effective against U.S. spammers to also make it illegal to forge the header information showing where it came from.
One law in place already I'm surprised people haven't used to sue their way to rich & fame is false advertising. If I ordered from each and every one of the penis enlargement spams I should be 1/4 mile or more now in length "guaranteed"! Hey...it didn't say "not cumulative with other enlargement products".
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
Handy for those with a spam filter, now you can save the only interesting spam from going to dev/null.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Nope, what it would lead to it would be something like that.
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Predefined filter in newer mailers:
move all mssages where subjects contain adv-adult
to folder Personal Folders/Scientific matters against world extinction
and next advertising will be something like protect your self against mom raiding your computer. Use
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Yeah...we'll call it the Spam War, and we can punish those stupid enough to actually buy the crap! Maybe we could institute the death penalty for those that buy penis enlargement pills and the DEA could sieze shipments of herbal viagra. Now that the drug war has eliminated drug use, we can move on to spam!
By "decrease", of course, I mean "exponentially increase unabated just as it has been doing for the last several years".
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We don't HAVE TO BE JUST LIKE THE SPAMMERS (in only six months!)
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You want to see an online community where we all live by our own code of ethics?....
Fine. Earlier today I caught some asshole trying to run his spam through my mail server. The headers also showed him forging email addresses in my own domain name.
My "own code of ethics" is to pound this guy into a bloody pulp, then pound him some more. I doubt that you'll find many people in this situation who disagree with this attitude - this jerk is trying to profit by abusing my good name! He doesn't care that his actions will result in me getting bounce messages, angry responses, and possibly even being blacklisted. Hell, that's his PLAN!
Do you really want to turn us loose on the net as vigilantes enforcing our own law? Even if I might have qualms about taking out his upstream ISP - hell taking out his entire country's net - if it's necessary to make him stop, others won't hold back.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
As a law-abiding spammer, how am I supposed to send both spam complying with the Louisiana law (including "adv-adult") and the Michigan law (containing "ADV:" as the first four characters?)
It would seem to me that I have to do something like this:
Subject: ADV: enlarge your penis [adv-adult]
I hope no new state laws are introduced, these are making it really tough to stay profitable.
I wonder if it's still legal to send
Subject: ADV: adv-adultery webcams!
The 'adv' still looks nasty, but I can't think of any word that ends in 'adv'.
As someone who spent a great many years living in Louisiana and following/participating in Louisiana politics, I know for a fact that the officials of the "great state of Louisiana" are quite incompetent. After all, we have the 2nd worst roads in the nation and the 2nd worst education system in the nation (thank god for Mississippi!).
Fight Spammers!
In the first months after the law went into effect the percentage of spam attacks with "ADV" or ADV:Adult" in the subject line was a full 5% on average. This compared to the months before it became law, where only 1 out of 20 spam attacks contained these in the subject line.
This in the state with over 1/10th of the U.S.'s population.
If this is modded +4, all of slashdot is going to need a adv-adult...