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October 23, 2003

Happy happy joy joy. Before you get too encouraged by the Senate’s touching display of unity in voting 97-0 for an “anti-spam” law, read this. [08:28 PM]
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the talking dog ::: (view all by) ::: October 23, 2003, 09:53 PM:

The only thing you can get even more senate unity on would seem to be keeping "under God" in the pledge of allegiance.

Well, I guess its back to bacon eggs and spam (that's only got a LITTLE spam in it).

Kathryn Cramer ::: (view all by) ::: October 24, 2003, 09:11 PM:

Seemed too good to be true.

Jon H ::: (view all by) ::: October 26, 2003, 08:41 AM:

Also, they want to create a no-spam-list, which is precisely the worst thing to do, because it would mean giving out a database of known-good addresses maintained by taxpayers.

That database will leave the country within hours of it being released. Spammers beyond the reach of the law will then be able to use it, and have no reason not to.


Jon Meltzer ::: (view all by) ::: October 26, 2003, 05:16 PM:

So, has the do-not-call list left the country yet?

Leak Soup ::: (view all by) ::: October 28, 2003, 03:28 PM:

From the other side of the rabbit hole, I see in all anti-spam and do-not-call registry efforts as Darpa-like gummint projects to get up-to-date, Patriot Act-auditable personal information for the purposes of correlation and tracking. Plenty o' indications for this in the public record.

Leak Soup ::: (view all by) ::: October 28, 2003, 03:29 PM:

From the other side of the rabbit hole, I see in all anti-spam and do-not-call registry efforts as Darpa-like gummint projects to get up-to-date, Patriot Act-auditable personal information for the purposes of correlation and tracking. Plenty o' indications for this in the public record.