*Ø* Blogmanac | California Moves to Ban Spam
Great news from California:
"California is trying a deceptively simple approach to the problem of junk e-mail: It is about to ban spam.
Gov. Gray Davis of California signed a bill today that outlaws sending most commercial e-mail to or from the state that the recipient did not explicitly request. That is a far more wide-reaching law than any of the 35 other state laws meant to regulate spam or any of the proposed bills in Congress.
"'We are saying that unsolicited e-mail cannot be sent and there are no loopholes,'' said Kevin Murray, the Democratic state senator from Los Angeles who sponsored the bill.
"The law would fine spammers $1,000 for each unsolicited message sent up to $1 million for each campaign."
Source
[Found at Slashdot and contributed by Mary Ann Sabo.]
Great news from California:
"California is trying a deceptively simple approach to the problem of junk e-mail: It is about to ban spam.
Gov. Gray Davis of California signed a bill today that outlaws sending most commercial e-mail to or from the state that the recipient did not explicitly request. That is a far more wide-reaching law than any of the 35 other state laws meant to regulate spam or any of the proposed bills in Congress.
"'We are saying that unsolicited e-mail cannot be sent and there are no loopholes,'' said Kevin Murray, the Democratic state senator from Los Angeles who sponsored the bill.
"The law would fine spammers $1,000 for each unsolicited message sent up to $1 million for each campaign."
Source
[Found at Slashdot and contributed by Mary Ann Sabo.]
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