RE: [Asrg] Article - New anti-spam proposal in the House of Representative

["Bob Wyman" <[e-mail]>]

>* It would become unlawful to send commercial e-mail to an address
>that was obtained from an automated scan of a Web site.

	Of course, it will be difficult to prove the origin of any
address in a database. Unless you actually catch folk running the
harvest program, you have no way of knowing where they got their names
from. Unless... 
	If they put this restriction in the law, they should also
require that users of lists maintain clear and accurate records of the
source of each address in their lists. This sourcing information would,
of course, be required to be made available for audit.
	More useful would be legislation that simply prohibits the
selling or purchase of lists.
	And, "Yes" I do realize that anything done via US law will
simply "push the problem overseas." However, I believe that
accomplishing that is better than nothing. If other countries write
similar legislation and enforce it, eventually, the spammers will be
hounded down to a smaller, more easily dealt with set of host countries.

		bob wyman

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