Also, the CAN-SPAM prohibition against blocking political messages is absurd when you consider the Sober.H worm traffic!
There is no prohibition in CAN-SPAM against blocking political messages. What it has is an exception stating that political messages do not violate it - i.e. you cannot *prosecute* political spammers (at least not for simply sending the mail) under CAN-SPAM. But it does not require you to accept that spam. IIRC, it explicitly allows recipients to define their own policy.
Kind of like it's legal to walk around town barefoot, but it's also legal for a store to enforce a "No shirt, no shoes, no service" policy.
(20 minutes later...)
OK, after reading/searching/skimming the text of CAN-SPAM at http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/108s877.html I cannot find an actual *exception* for political messages. What it does have is a *loophole*. Throughout the text, it refers specifically to "unsolicited commercial electronic mail."
Still, it doesn't prevent recipients or ISPs from blocking whatever they want, it just limits what can be prosecuted under those terms.
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
