Tuesday, Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 7:42:25 PM, Swerve wrote: > SPAM should be illegal. > FAX SPAM should be illegal.
> Opt-in emailing with activation that requires email confirmation from the > person signing up should be required for all companies and people creating > and using mailing lists. No thanks, I don't want the government, any government, dictating how email should be used. As much as I agree with your statement that companies should use activation required subscription mechanisms, I would oppose any legislation that tries to legislate the issue of email like that. What I do support is adding some postal mail like restrictions on email, and I would support laws to accomplish this: 1) That "adult/pornographic" emails/ads are NEVER to be sent unsolicited, and that a set of tags be developed that they must use to identify the email, so that filtering can be done by families with children, etc. Establish strict consequences for violations, just like in the postal world (in the postal world, you can never send a sexually explicit advertisement unsolicited, and all such mailings must be identified as such before the recipient is exposed to the material, either on the outer envelope or on an inside envelope to protect their privacy). 2) Mandatory list removal, same as in the real world for mailing lists, and telemarketing call lists. 3) All advertisements must contain correct headers and correct contact information and removal instructions. But for any of this to work, the vigilantes must stop their crusades. But like with any extremists, there is no negotiating with them, they don't recognize that they can accomplish a lot more through compromise, then by their all or nothing approach. It's too bad too, since it would stand in the way of any real reform of the issue. But, as Chuck will probably come along now and say, I guess none of this is ontopic. Oh well :) -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth." -- Jean Giradoux
