[geeks] Idea for law that forces unsolicited mail to have a special header tag

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:24:08PM -0600, Geek wrote:
> Is it not reasonable to suggest that the US and other nations enact laws
> that state all unsolicited/mass emails must have a special header that can
> be filtered if the person does not want it?

Reasonable? yes.

So you expect politicians to do it?  Bwahahaha, how touchingly naive!

On a slightly more serious note, that wouldn't stop spam, cos to be effective
laws must be enforcable.  There's too many of 'em for the courts to cope
with, so most would get away with just a slapped wrist.

Oh, and some nations have this broken idea that free speech applies to
corporations.

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