Re: Non-technical on spam

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:02:57 +0100, Gunnar Lindberg said:
> Faced with the email cost model and a suggestion that we Internet
> people may create and enforce our own laws (e.g. Paul Vixie RBL)
> one of the lawyers claimed "but spam IS illegal already" and handed
> over a booklet from ICC, the International Chamber of Commerce,
> 
>     http://www.iccwbo.org
> 
> There are many documents - a few examples from some of them:
> 
>     +	"Advertisements should be clearly distinguishable as such,"

For shame.  A lawyer that doesn't understand the difference between *should*
and *legally required*.  Given that most laywers earn their money living
in the space between these two, I presume this is a most underfed underpaid
lawyer....
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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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