On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Chris Kassopulo wrote: > > "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Most likely no one on this list falls into this category, but if you > > know anyone who has a company that grosses more than 100 million a > year > and an influential politician in their pocket, they need to start > > lobbying hard to stop spam and push ARIN, APNIC, RIPE, LANIC to > revoke > IP addresses of countries like China and Brasil who only care > about spam > when it concerns their own citizens. > > > > Heard this morning that the governor of California, yes that one, > passed some legislation making it illegal to send spam to or fro > that state. A penalty of up to one million is possible. > > Hey, it's a start.
Yup, the law takes effect on January 1. Any California resident who receives spam from anywhere can sue the spammer in small claims court for $1000 for the first offense. THe penalties rise fairly substantialy for additionall offenses. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
