Re: Nigerian Spammers Using TDD/TTY Telephone Relay Service

2003-05-30 Thread John Kelsey
At 06:41 PM 5/27/03 -0500, Roy M.Silvernail wrote: How about simply holding companies absolutely responsible for the methods used to distribute their advertising? Couldn't Truth In Advertising be extended to email solicitation? The one thing that *all* UCE has in common is the attempt to sell

Re: Nigerian Spammers Using TDD/TTY Telephone Relay Service

2003-05-30 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 02:07 PM, John Kelsey wrote: This is aside from the first amendment problems (it's commercial speech, so it may be possible to get around those problems, but who really knows?) with antispam laws. It's useful to remember that newspapers are commercial

Re: Nigerian Spammers Using TDD/TTY Telephone Relay Service

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Perhaps rather than retaliating against spammers, as many here have written about, we should be talking about mail-bombing and spam-bombing any politician or lawmaker who supports anti-spam legislation. --Tim May Are you sure it won't be somehow counter-productive?