Re: [Asrg] The combination of legislation and technology (was: Articl e - New anti-spam proposal in the House of Representative)
Troy Rollo <asrg@troy.rollo.name> Sun, 25 May 2003 23:34 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Asrg] The combination of legislation and technology (was: Articl e - New anti-spam proposal in the House of Representative)
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Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 09:15:18 +1000
At 10:29 25/05/03 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: >At the FTC workshop, speakers from states having laws were quite clear >that they were NOT having an effect on spam. Did any of them have a real "anti-spam" law"? There's only one state that has a true (opt-in) anti-spam law. CAUCE has been saying for years that opt-out ant anti-forgery laws won't have any spam-reduction impact, so pointing at such laws and saying "laws don't work" seems to lack foundation. Expecting laws requiring opt-out and anti-forgery to stop spam is like expecting an "anti bank robbery law" to work because it makes bank robbery illegal unless the robber wears a pink tu-tu and respects a request not to do it to that bank again. All such a law would do would be to increase the sales of pink tu-tus. Nobody would seriously call such a law "anti bank robbery", and nobody should seriously call an opt-out law "anti spam". -- Troy Rollo Chairman, CAUBE.AU asrg@troy.rollo.name Executive Director, iCAUCE _______________________________________________ Asrg mailing list Asrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg