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Spamifornia
by Jeremy at 12:18 am EST, Dec 5, 2003 |
Leave it to Californians to pass an anti-spam law that could ruin e-mail for the rest of us. There is, however, a way around the California law: the "CAN-SPAM" Act. According to this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, California's spam legislation would outlaw the Memestreams feature, "Forward this to a friend". Memestreams could be exposed to a class action lawsuit. The solution appears to be an overriding federal law. Actually, depending on the definition of e-mail, it could outlaw the reputation agent altogether. It's clear that e-mail need not involve SMTP nor RFC 822. |
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RE: Spamifornia
by Decius at 12:31 pm EST, Dec 6, 2003 |
Jeremy wrote:
] According to this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal,
] California's spam legislation would outlaw the Memestreams
] feature, "Forward this to a friend". Memestreams could be
] exposed to a class action lawsuit. The solution appears to be
] an overriding federal law.
]
] Actually, depending on the definition of e-mail, it could
] outlaw the reputation agent altogether. It's clear that
] e-mail need not involve SMTP nor RFC 822. I'm fairly certain that this law only applies to commercial email. When you forward to a friend, you are sending an email through my system. I do tack a line of text at the bottom that might be seen as an ad. Many free email services do the same. I think this is not what this law intended to ban, even if this would turn the email into a "commercial" email under their definition. Its problematic in that it could generate a lawsuit, but if well defended that lawsuit would probably fail. |
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