On 9/23/21 19:45, John Levine via mailop wrote:
A bizarre new Texas law makes most spam filtering illegal, effective Dec 2:
“An electronic mail service provider may not intentionally impede the
transmission of another person’s electronic mail message based on the content
of the message” unless:
[snip]
* “the provider has a good faith, reasonable belief that the message contains
malicious computer code, obscene material, material depicting sexual conduct,
or material that violates other law”
That's 321.054 here:
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.321.htm#321.054
Note the "material that violates other law".
Now scroll up in the same statute to 321.052. This is indeed an "other
law" as described above.
* A person may not intentionally take an action to transmit an
unsolicited commercial electronic mail message unless:
* (1) "ADV:" appears first in the subject line of the message or, if
the message contains obscene material or material depicting sexual
conduct, "ADV: ADULT ADVERTISEMENT" appears first in the subject line;
and....
I've seen a lot of spam and it has been a very long time since I saw one
with "ADV:" at the beginning of the subject line.
So it looks to me (not a lawyer and don't play one on TV) that according
to a different subsection of the very same statute it's perfectly fine
to block spam that doesn't begin with "ADV:", which is pretty much all
spam.
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Jay Hennigan - [email protected]
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
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