Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:57:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: marko@uk.radan.com (Mark Ovens) Cc: grog@lemis.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Europe says yes to spam Message-ID: <199905111957.MAA16922@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3737F24F.70BE6FCA@uk.radan.com> from "Mark Ovens" at May 11, 99 10:03:11 am
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> :-(. Mind you, about 90% of the spam I receive comes from the USA so > I'm not sure what good it would have done had they voted the other > way. Many (most?) of this junk e-mail includes a statement that under > some Bill or other it is not classed as spam. Obviously the US > legislators use a different definition of spam/junk e-mail to those of > us in the real world. That bill is bogus. Yes, it was a bill, but it was never passed. In the US, there are a number of laws which prohibit SPAM, but only in state jurisdictions. In California, you can bill $50 per incident to a maximum of $25,000 per day for each SPAM, so long as you publish policy beforehand. Publication includes: 220-mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.2/8.9.2; Tue, 11 May 1999 12:45:55 (UCT) 220-This is formal notice under California Assembly Bill 1629, enacted 220-on 26 September, 1998, that any UCE sent to or through this server 220-will be billed US$50 per incident, up to the legally allowed maximum 220 of US$25,000 per day. A relatively easy hack to `confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG' in your .mc file. Makes you want to set up an open relay and go public as an Internet stock expecting to make large profits on "electronic postage stamps" that cost $50 a pop... If you do, I insist on a royalty of 1% for having the idea first... > There is also another law being proposed by the EU which would make > the local caching of Web pages by ISP's effectively illegal (something > related to copyright IIRC). You're not copying it, you are storing and forwarding it. I would really laugh if somone got a cease-and-desist order against British Telecom for storing voice mail without the permission of the caller, using such a law... not that I'm suggesting someone do this if the morons actually pass the law. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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