6. Proposals - Legal - US Spam Law - Anonimity (was Re: [Asrg] Re:[Politech] Congress finally poised to vote on anti-spam bill [sp])

[Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com>]

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I took a quick look at it, and although I am not a lawyer, it seems to 
affect only commercial emails and the anti-forging provisions do not 
seem to apply to a single email going to a single person, only to emails 
with 5 or more recipients or 2 domains.

Yakov

Steve Schear wrote:
> At 04:13 PM 11/21/2003 -0600, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> wrote:
>
> > A copy of the bill is here:
> > http://news.com.com/pdf/ne/2003/FINALSPAM.pdf
>
> I interpret paragraph 1037(a)1 - 5 as possibly prohibiting the use of 
> anonymous remailers, or proxies and nyms in registering email accounts, 
> for the purpose of commercial speech.
>
> steve
>
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