At 09:31 AM 7/3/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>However, existing US law already provides relief from SPAM
>
>US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Section 227
>permits you to "receive up to $500 in damages for each such violation"
>when the purpose is:
>
> "(C) to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or
>        other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a
>        telephone facsimile machine"
>
>"(2) The term ''telephone facsimile machine'' means equipment
>      which has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images, or both,
>      from paper into an electronic signal and to transmit that signal
>      over a regular telephone line, or (B) to transcribe text or
>      images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a
>      regular telephone line onto paper."
>
>Computer email fulfills these technical specifications.

Doesn't count then if it's being used on a cable modem.... no phone line.
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