[I read Earthlink's suggestions below, and thought "We really are in trouble."]
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200401/msg0011 7.html Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:15:53 -0700 From: "NewsScan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Anti-spam law enacted -- so what's all this junk in my in-box? The new federal anti-spam law went into effect Jan. 1, but consumers report their inboxes are more cluttered than ever -- what's going on? Critics say the new law doesn't actually ban spam but rather provides guidelines for sending junk e-mail legally. "Now we have a green light for what would come to be called 'legal spam,'" says ePrivacy Group CEO Vincent Schiavone. John Levine, a board member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail, concurs: "Basically, it's a bill of rights for companies that want to send junk e-mail." In addition, the federal law supercedes stricter laws recently passed in several states, such as California. "Everyone was planning for this California law, which was so draconian," says a California lawyer who defends accused spammers. "Once the federal government passed the federal law, everyone was kind of relieved." And while technology firms are eagerly pursuing new ways of blocking spam, skeptics say the ultimate solution won't be technological or legal, but will depend on developing more savvy users. Mary Youngblood, abuse team manager at EarthLink, suggests putting numbers in the middle of your e-mail address to make it more difficult to guess and using a separate address for online shopping and newsgroup postings. [AP, Jan 11 2004; NewsScan Daily, 12 Jan 2004] http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040111/D800O3P00.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
