31 Jan
2002
31 Jan
'02
5:52 a.m.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Gary Hildebrand wrote:
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
California has a law as cited in the the following paragraphs:
Unsolicited commercial e-mail is in direct violation of the California
Business & Professions Code Section 17538.4 which provides that all
unsolicited commercial e-mail transmissions to California residents
must meet certain requirements.
Failure to comply with any of the rules is a criminal offense
punishable by a $1,000 fine and/or six months imprisonment for each
offense. In addition, individuals may file civil actions to seek
injunctive relief.
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I have no idea how many Californians are aware of it, or have taken
advantage of the penalty part.
- don
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Geoff Reed wrote:
I remember when Dalnet blacklisted AOL users for several months. Really
put the dampers on my IRC activities, as one of my better friends was an
AOL subscriber.
What really is needed is stronger rules on unsolicited e-mails. Maybe
something like a no-send list, like we have here in Missouri for
telemarketers.
Gary Hildebrand not so easy fix, your ISP can get on a blacklist
from spoofed headers,
there are a handful of the blacklists out there that just add you, without
verifying that the spam did , in fact originate at your domain :(
That is true. Some? of the blacklists will blacklist any site that COULD
be used, based entirely on whether they have things like reverse DNS
configured properly.
How about an entire Community College being blacklisted (without ever
having been hijacked)? And the "Network Administrator" is apparently not
capable of fixing it!