Send Email to Utah, Go to Jail

Talaria writes "The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy is reporting that two new laws in Utah and Michigan are going into effect next week, creating 'do not email' registries for children's email addresses. According to ISIPP, 'Email marketers who send unpermitted messages to email addresses or domains on the child protection registries in Michigan and Utah face stiff penalties including prison and fines.'" (Note that ISIPP has a vested interest in publicizing these laws, since they offer a service intended to establish that senders are in fact within the law.)

Comments

How do *I* get on the list?

[drsmack1]

Sounds like a good way to avoid being SPAMMED...

Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific

[LiquidCoooled]

Then they will nuke him from orbit.
Its the only way to be sure.

Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific

[__aaclcg7560]

You send Mormon missionaires overseas to change the culture. Either China changes its email culture or the one-wife, one-child policy goes out the window. Either way, you will have fewer people in Utah writing crazy laws. :P

Re:Slashdot's American Flag Icon

[TrappedByMyself]

Why are there only 12 stripes in it? The flag has 13. Slashdot needs to fix this. It's very disrespectful to the flag and the people who died for it.

Nah, it's just a tribute to the wealth of accurate information available on Slashdot.

Re:What is Utah really like?

[symbolic]

I've even heard some people go so far as to say that Utah is resonsible for a lot of the decay in the United States today.

I think that's Washington D.C. you're referring to.

Re:What is Utah really like?

[drsmack1]

Utah is a prosperous state with a highly educated and industrious populous. Anything bad that you are hearing is generated by Left-Wingers who are threatened by the Right-wing slant of the state.

Basically they have all the good and bad of every state in the union; in varying degrees. They have a lot of rural areas which drag then down a bit in the statistics.

http://www.adherents.com/largecom/lds_dem.html

http://www.netstate.com/states/alma/ut_alma.htm

You insensitive clod...

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

I picture you to be a skinny pale dude with bad teeth eating boiled meat and drinking a warm Guiness...

You insensitive clod...

hello frend

[fermion]

Hello young UtaH child

My name is Prince omar en caver ensanado and i am in desperate need of help. My heard of unicorns are kiled by very bad men who have taken over my country of narnia. We need helps to buy food and supplies to keep alive the unicorns.

I know that you are a good child, and will be willing to help. I am also able to pay great money for the help. If you can email your momy or dadys bank account and social secutrity number, I put lots of money in the account. They be very happy and thank you for long time for making them so much money. In return we just need to spend some of it on food and some fun army stuff.

If you me help reply please. The poor little unicorns are dying. To deposit the money in you parents account and make them very happy, I need you to buy some stuff and leave in wardrobe at place I tell you later. you can buy with credit cards. We give you gillions of dollars as soon as we get the stuff.

Please help! You want to make parent happy and be good child, yes. you don't want to be bad child? Pleas reply and I tell you what you must buy. All this ok, i promise, cross my hert!

Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific

[EvilStein]

" Forget China, what happens if the spammer is in South Dakota?"

Oh, that's easy. Teey'll just shut off the ISDN line to South Dakota. Problem will be solved in 10 minutes. :)

Re:Enforcement Across the Pacific

[DavidTC]

No, they've still got the dialup that Frank Jameson's kid set up, over at the library.