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RE: [Asrg] Article - New anti-spam proposal in the House of Representative

2003-05-23 18:48:52
On Friday, May 23, 2003 5:56 PM, Bob Wyman [SMTP:bob(_at_)wyman(_dot_)us] wrote:
* It would become unlawful to send commercial e-mail to an address
that was obtained from an automated scan of a Web site.

      Of course, it will be difficult to prove the origin of any
address in a database. Unless you actually catch folk running the
harvest program, you have no way of knowing where they got their names
from. Unless...
      If they put this restriction in the law, they should also
require that users of lists maintain clear and accurate records of the
source of each address in their lists. This sourcing information would,
of course, be required to be made available for audit.
      More useful would be legislation that simply prohibits the
selling or purchase of lists.

I see an additional intersection of tokenized addresses becoming 'vogue' for 
web sites such that each request could be tracked, thus creating a running 
database for the web site purveyor to pursue.  That of course would be a 
constraint on the law imposed by the technology available.  It could certainly 
be simpler, along the lines you site Bob or a functional separation of address 
spaces e.g. have a web e-mail address and an other address for correspondence.

-e
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