+++ USM Bish [linux-india] <02/02/02 19:33 +0530>:
> I have received two unsolicited mails in the last week or so with
> the undermentioned contents (except  for the last two sentences).
> I am quoting only one of the mails:

Ah, the good old Murkowski disclaimer.  In one word, it is "bullshit"

> > Under Bill s. 1618 TITLE III  passed by the 105th Congress this 
> > letter cannot be considered spam as long as the sender includes 
> > contact information and removal instructions.This is a one-time 
> > e-mail transmissiom. No removal is necessary.

1. This was a *bill* proposed by Senators Murkowski and Torricelli sometime
around 1995, and not approved / passed into law.  See http://www.spamlaws.com
for more information (or there's a cyberlaws page at http://www.jmls.edu -
the John Marshall Law School).

2. Even if it was by some weird chance really a law, it would be a US law and
would NOT apply in India.

3. Anyone who includes this disclaimer at the bottom of an emailed ad IS a
spammer, 100%.  So, feel free to pass that mail through something like
http://www.spamcop.net - or maybe http://www.vipul.net/ricochet/ and complain
to the spammer's email provider, ISP where he sent it from, website he is
advertising etc.  Get it all shut down.  Hound the bastard out :)

> Could anybody throw more light on this? Googling for "105th Con-
> gres Bills" got me nowhere ...

Googling for S1618 would have got you tons of stuff :)

        -srs

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian  <---->  mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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LOST #150        -**< Sub : Killing a Process (#3) >**-
To kill a process by name, use the killall command. To  kill a
failed fetchmail session on tty1 as an user, log  into another 
console, and issue the command "killall fetchmail". Be careful
with this command as root, since all instances of the  program
used by *all* users will be killed !!! 

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