21 November, 2003

Congress Poised for Vote on Anti-Spam Bill

Congress Poised for Vote on Anti-Spam Bill. Hmm... so the spammer (oh wait, no, the direct marketing association, yeah, that's more politically correct) lobby won that one it looks like. They will still be able to bombard your inbox with messages. Just imagine the amount of time you will have to spend unsubscribing yourself from these things. At least with the junk mail, you can, in fact, mail a letter of request to be taken off the junk mail list to an assocation that will stop junk mail at your address for three years. (of course once the three years are up you will have to do it again). Sigh... it would be interesting to see whether this will make imporvements, but I doubt it, since most spam comes from overseas at this point anyway and that is not under US legislature.

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