Spammers Pleased with 'Anti'-Spam Act

grung0r writes "A post at Ed Foster's Gripelog explains why the new anti-spam law that Congress is passing isn't a good idea: 'it's clear that only the Direct Marketing Association, Microsoft, AOL and a handful of others had any input into the law, because it's carefully crafted to allow the big marketers free reign. And the loopholes it provides them will be more than big enough to provide aid and comfort for the smallest and sleaziest of spammers as well.' More about the problems with the law can be found at cauce.org." The direct marketers are dancing in the streets over it.

Comments

Re:If they spam you...

[Ophidian P. Jones]

Well, that might be a good idea, if we were all fucking losers like you with nothing better to do.

Oh yeah, look for some more reposts from me real soon, asswipe.

Re:RTFA

[dheltzel]

Passed on a 392-5 vote, the House bill largely mirrors "Can Spam"

It looks to me like the entire house are "GW's friends" in this case. I apologize in advance for offending you if the facts I'm pointing to interfere with your prejudices.

The issue here is that all politicians (including the ones you like) are too stupid to be making laws like this. To the man (or woman), their only concern is re-election.

It still has to be passed

[www.sorehands.com]

The compromised bill still must be passed again by both the full house and senate.

Then signed by the president.