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U.S. Spam Law to Take Effect Jan. 1
We lead with news that the U.S. 'anti'-spam law, written largely by the Direct Marketing Association, will enter into effect on January 1. The bill preempts existing state laws which are tougher (states' rights anyone?), so for many citizens, this is purely a pro-spam law. The FTC is thinking about bounty hunters to enforce the new law (which you can and probably should read for yourself).
Hm. Wonder if Boba Fett has an IMAP client in all that fancy armor... :)
-JT
Hell, I'll work as a bounty hunter for free, as long as I get to bash the spammer in the head... That's my "payment" for my "work".
It may go into effect on January 1, but expect spammers to treat it like April 1.
From the FTC article:
The bounty-hunter idea was promoted this year primarily by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., who called upon Congress to allow individuals who identify and help locate spammers to receive at least 20 percent of any fines collected.
I hereby stake my claim to the 20 percent bounty on one Flo Fox , of Slidell, LA. Hands off!Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Somebody please compress the text of law
i ca ATTHEFIRSTSESSIONBegunandheldattheCityofWashington onTuesday,theseventhdayofJanuary,twothousandandthr eeAnActToregulateinterstatecommercebyimposinglimit ationsandpenaltiesonthetransmissionofunsolicitedco mmercialelectronicmailviatheInternet.Beitenactedby theSenateandHouseofRepresentativesoftheUnitedState sofAmericainCongressassembled,SECTION1.SHORTTITLE. ThisActmaybecitedasthe`ControllingtheAssaultofNon- SolicitedPornographyandMarketi.....
It's not very efficient, but here goes:
OneHundredEighthCongressoftheUnitedStatesofAmer
(oh, like somebody ELSE wasn't going to do that?)
As long as the term dead or alive is included, I want in!
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
How can anyone complain about and Anti-SPAM law?
How could anyone complain about my new (patented) Hugs And Kisses greeting? Of course, its actually punching you in the face and dropping a brick on your foot, buts its called "hugs and kisses", so how could anyone complain about that?
You can't take the sky from me...
net connection to that Sarlacc. The three sarlaccs in my backyard are splitting a T3, but remember, connectivity is rather spotty on Tatooine ever since Jabba signed that deal with Covad.
Actually, no, I wasn't going to do that... I was going to gzip it, then list the base-10 representation of the gzip.
#define DRM chmod 000
In SOVIET RUSSIA (Score:1, Funny)
All your e-mail belong to government.
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Good God man! I pity the man who modded you as funny!
1. Use cliched Slashdot joke
2. Mess up formatting
3. ???
4. Profit!!
There are two ways to interpret your attempt. You could have been going for a Soviet Russia joke, which could have been better worded as "In SOVIET RUSSIA, spam law makes YOU!"
Or you could have been going for the all your base parody which could have been worded as "All your email are belong to U.S.!"
In either case, respectfully, YOU FAIL IT.
(Anyone with karma to burn want to count how many cliches I've used?)
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
I believe you've confused "April 1st" with "December 25th".
What's really funny is that in that entire string of text, the work "Pornography" is the first word my brain grabbed focus on.
It's not pron. It's pr0n. If y0u'r3 g01ng +0 do 31337 $93aK, 9l3ase d0 i+ r1gh7.
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
Yes, that's why it's called the Can Spam Act. Perhaps someday it will be replaced with a Cannot Spam Act.
I was wondering when Bebop would get into this. "Ed spammed him!!!" "Hey Spike! The next spammer is worth five hundred thousant woolongs!" Et cetera. Buying DVD sets will always pay off someday for in-jokes among small cliques!
Yup...