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Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White House

Posted by timothy on from the hope-springs-eternal-like-a-slinkie dept.

sunbird writes "At just after 5 o'clock EST, the House concurred to the Senate's amendments to the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (or "CAN-SPAM") (bill in PDF format: here or here). Although the bill will prohibit certain tactics (such as hiding return addresses), critics state that the bill does not go far enough (see this press release). The bill will provide criminal penalties for violations of its provisions (up to five years behind bars), but will not allow private parties to sue spammers. News reports indicate (SF Gate or Forbes) that Bush intends to sign the bill. Prior Slashdot articles are here: 1 2 3."

3 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. What is needed by RedHatLinux · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    is a global Jihad against spam. We need to organize and lead a total assault on the economics of spam i.e. make it unprofitable.

    In addition spammers need to be hunted to the far corners of the global and made to pay their stupidity. However this is done, i.e. death, jailing them in pound you in ass federal prisoners or beatings with heavy sacks they need to be eliminated and enough fear generated to scare off any potential replacements.

  2. EST? by tarquin_fim_bim · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At just after 5 o'clock EST

    Doesn't anyone use UTC anymore?

  3. Re:Another Law by sfjoe · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Why not continue working on more effective spam traps and stop legislating morality.

    Stop legislating morality? Have you not been paying attention to which party is in power? Legislating morality is what they live for.

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