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.

RE: Spamifornia