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Date sent:      	Mon, 09 Sep 2002 23:54:27 -0400
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From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:        	FC: Weekly column: Be wary of Washington's solutions to spam
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    Be wary of Washington's spam solution
    By Declan McCullagh
    September 9, 2002, 4:00 AM PT

    WASHINGTON--About three dozen high-level lobbyists met quietly
    last Friday afternoon at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to concoct a
    way to drastically reduce the deluge of unsolicited e-mail.

    The invitation-only lunch meeting, which lasted about two hours,
    started a process that could result in an industry agreement on
    new laws or self-regulation.

    Lobbyists for AOL Time Warner, Verizon, the National Cable and
    Telecommunications Association, and the Direct Marketing
    Association were among the attendees. According to the invitation,
    the group met to discuss "approaches to addressing problems
    arising from abusive electronic mail practices."

    All that sounds pretty good, right? After all, who could be
    against efforts to reduce the heaps of spam that are snarling mail
    servers, clogging connections and making our in-boxes
    approximately as useful as a 10MB hard drive? One of my News.com
    colleagues estimates that spam soon will make up the majority of
    message traffic on the Internet.

    But Washington rarely has the best solution. When you dump a
    passel of lawyers and lobbyists in a room, dub them a working
    group and close the door, they end up crafting new laws and
    regulations. And new laws and regulations from Washington simply
    won't stop spam.

    [...]




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