Below is a CNET News.com article about a new anti-spam proposal in the House:
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-1009467.html
Some highlights:
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* Nobody may send "any commercial electronic mail message" unless it
permits the recipient to unsubscribe, includes a valid return e-mail
address and street address, and makes it obvious that the e-mail is an
advertisement or solicitation. There is no requirement for an "ADV:" notice
in the subject line, which other proposals would mandate. If the recipient
chooses to unsubscribe, the person sending the e-mail may not make contact
again until a three-year period has elapsed.
* An Internet service provider (ISP) could sue for damages of $10 for each
e-mail sent to someone who "opted out," up to a maximum of $500,000.
Lawsuits must be brought in federal court, and if a judge decides that the
accused spammer "knowingly" violated the law, total damages would triple to
$1.5 million.
* False or misleading header information would be banned. State attorneys
general could sue violators and seek damages of up to $3 million. The FTC
and the U.S. Justice Department also would have jurisdiction. They would
receive the additional power to sue people who don't include the necessary
identification information in commercial e-mail.
* Inclusion of "sexually oriented material" in any commercial e-mail
message would become a federal crime, unless the sender follows regulations
to be devised by the FTC. Violators of the rule would be punished by up to
two years in a federal prison. It would also become a federal crime to send
any commercial e-mail that "falsifies the sender's identity"
* If an ISP were harmed by those two types of messages--unlawful sex e-mail
or those with false identification--it could sue for damages of $500 for
each e-mail.
* It would become unlawful to send commercial e-mail to an address that was
obtained from an automated scan of a Web site.
* No class-action lawsuits on behalf of spam recipients would be allowed.
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Yakov Shafranovich / <research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com>
SolidMatrix Research, a division of SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
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"One who watches the wind will never sow, and one who keeps his eyes on
the clouds will never reap" (Ecclesiastes 11:4)
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