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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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