On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:41:19PM -0500, Christopher J. Carlson wrote: > Tim Pawlenty was the Chief Author of the Internet Privacy Bill > which would make spammers put ADV in the subject (ADV-ADULT for > adult mailings) and impose some pretty impressive fines for those > that didn't. Bah -- subject line tagging is a milquetoast "feel good" solution. Once the email is in the inbox, it's already done half the damage. What I'd like to see is legislation that: - cranks up fines for UBE, period - explicitly categorizes blocklists as protected first amendment expression (no more bogus MAPS lawsuits) - doesn't have exceptions, e.g. nonprofits and political campaigners (don't hold your breath kids) Anything less is just kowtowing to moneyed interests (i.e. the DMA, major political parties, etc.). But (s)he who has the gold, makes the rules these days. My guess is that Independent or Green is going to have the most overlap with free software ideas. Tell you what -- as an experiment I'll volunteer to write to the gubernatorial and senatorial candidates and see what happens. Place your bets. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Mailing List http://www.mn-linux.org Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota irc.openprojects.net #tclug