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Spam Bounty Hunters

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:35:01 -0400 Send reply to: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: trowland <trowland@FREENET.TLH.FL.US> Organization: Florida State Looniversity Subject: Spam Bounty Hunters To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

Posted by ~timothy <http://www.monkey.org/timothy> on Wednesday May 17, @07:59PM from the what-state-eats-the-most? dept. belgin <http://bdotelginatworldnetdotattdotnet> writes: "According to this ZDNet article <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2569928,00.html>, the U.S. House Commerce Committee is considering a law that places a bounty on illegal spammers. These bounties would be paid to ISPs and individuals who track down and turn in spammers. Specific types of spam mentioned by the article include fraudulent spam and spam that attempts to falsify its origin. Fun to think about if you've landed on one too many spam lists, but a little scary in 'leads to ...' department." The bill, called H.R. 3113, or the Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act of 2000, would impose Federal law in the form of what seem to be common-sense restrictions on electronic junk. But belgin is right -- what consequences might laws like this have that we don't want to trade for, even in spam? Would private solutions be better in the long term? For more point your browser to http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/17/2136258.shtml ------- End of forwarded message -------

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