Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White House

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."

Comments

Re:This legalizes spam

[Vainglorious Coward]

That's why it's called the "CAN-SPAM" act. No trickery with naming there, nosir.

The United States Anti-Spam Bill

[EinarH]

We the Congress of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect spam heaven, establish Protection, insure domestic Annoyance, provide for the miserable defence, promote the general Chaos, and secure the Blessings of Financial Freedom to ourself and our Contributors, do ordain and establish this Anti-Spam Bill for the United States of America.

just caught this on CNN

[edrugtrader]

supposedly the bill was placed on the president's desk a few hours ago, but he threw it out thinking it was garbage.

Re:just caught this on CNN

[Feztaa]

From: congress@congress.gov
To: gbush@whitehouse.gov
Subject: T1RED 0F SPAM? PASS THIS B1LL TODAY, YOU WON'T R3GRET IT!

WE PR0MISE A REDUCT1ON IN SPAM WITH1N 0NE WEEK, OR YOUR MONEY B4CK!

ALSO, GET LARGER PEN1S, FULLER LIPS, BIGGER BREA5T, BETTER ER3CTIONS, AND IMPROVE YOUR LOVE L1FE!

Spam them

[anthony_dipierro]

Here's a list of the email addresses of all your Congressman. Maybe someone can whip together a script to send them an email asking them to repeal this law, every day until they opt out or repeal the law. Extra karma points for randomizing the title among non-misleading possibilities. Then we just gotta get every single slashdotter to run the program.

contrived acronyms

[cabalamat2]

What we really need is a law to ban all laws with contrived acronyms.

How to get Bush to take REAL action against spam

[still cynical]

Tell Cheney they've discovered oil where spammers are located. Watch the bombs start falling.

Re:This legalizes spam

[DickBreath]

Of course this legalizes spam.

Why do you think they call it the CAN-spam bill?

Why didn't they call it the

1. Anti-spam bill?
2. Stop-spam bill?
3. Castrate all spammers bill?