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Louisiana Tries Anti-Spam Law

Posted by michael on from the good-luck dept.

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..."

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  1. Great by justsomebody · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Great by EinarH · · Score: 3, Funny
      I think think this is a *cough* really great idea. And this is *cough* very likely to work.

      But if they had expanded it beyond only adv-adult it would have been so much better.
      Then I could have deleted my scam-419 mail together with the adv-adult mail.

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  2. Then we'd see... by dapuk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Subject: adv-4dult

    Body:
    Fr33 g0at pr0n c!ick h3re!

  3. donotspam.gov??? by winstarman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting to see how futile an http://donotspam.gov would be.

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    1. Re:donotspam.gov??? by sharkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      D'oh! I read that as donutspam.gov, and thought it was a pretty good idea. How disappointing.

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  4. It might not work...but... by Cat_Byte · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

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  5. adv-adult by SeanTobin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Check out my webcam!

    You can't mod me down! I had adv-adult in the subject line!

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  6. White list by Teun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Handy for those with a spam filter, now you can save the only interesting spam from going to dev/null.

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  7. Re:I AM a LA resident... by justsomebody · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nope, what it would lead to it would be something like that.

    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 .X.X. mailer

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  8. As a Louisianan... by Hayzeus · · Score: 4, Funny
    I am proud of my legislature, and fully expect this to decrease the amount of spam coming into my mailbox.

    By "decrease", of course, I mean "exponentially increase unabated just as it has been doing for the last several years".

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  9. This law worked so well in California... by geekotourist · · Score: 3, Funny
    California has a law requiring the same sort of warning in the subject line. It became the law January 1, 1999.

    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.