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Texas State Law Won't Stop Spam
(old news - 03:25AM Saturday Aug 30 2003)
Under the new state law in Texas, spam will have to be identified in the subject line of the e-mail as follows: In the subject line Texan spammers have to include " ADV:" If the mail contains adult or sexual content, the subject line must read " ADV: adult advertisement." It is not expected to make much of a difference. (Full story).
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Parsonsburg, MD | How about if it contains . . . A D V or A*D*V or A-D-V or A/D/V or any of hundreds of other permutations. Requiring ADV is just plain ridiculous and will not make the slightest difference. | |
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| Re: How about if it contains . . . California had this "ADV:" requirement for quite a while, but I have yet to see spam that adheres to this.
Even if it won't make a difference, SPAM that does not follow this requirement is automatically illegal and the California attorney general actively hunts those spammers down if they operate in California ( »caag.state.ca.us/spam/ ). | |
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| Only ridiculous if it is not enforced. We let spammers get away with so much! And given that many anti-spammers seem to find the hunt (shutting down a website, for example -- for which the response from spammers is to move to another website) more interesting than finding practical solutions to the problem, spammers may get away with abusing individual and businesses rights for years to come. I have yet to see a even one solid technical or legal solution to the problem. What makes spamming all that different from viruses and worms? Do they not have the same adverse economic implications? Could you imagine what your snailmail mailbox would look like if snailmail advertising were free? If porn were sent to your mailbox? The laws haven't caught up with the crimes, the current laws aren't being enforced, and general thinking is that is the problem is difficult to stop, so many just filter out the problem and try to live in ignorant bliss. Isn't it easier to support a sub-industry that lives off of spammers -- by that I mean all the companies that sell us filtering software, tracking software, et al. What would happen if all that money went to stopping the problem, not masking it? Just a question, just my opinion 
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