[ILUG] [OT] U.S. Bill S.1618 (Was: Spam that was just sent in)

[Thomas Ribbrock]

On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:48:50AM +0100, Bernard Tyers wrote:
[...] 
> And someone found out, that the US Congress was trying to pass/ deciding
> on a law like that.
> Saying thats its ok to send that kind of sh&te to a list / or anyone, is
> crap. 
[...]

Ok, to make this clear: The original message (not by me) in this thread
quoted spam referring to bill S.1618, which promotes an "opt-out" solution.
That bill is *not* U.S. law:

<quote>
The Murkowski-Torricelli Amendments to S. 1618. Status:
   Passed Senate, died in conference, (which means the bill *is
   not law*, despite what spammer 'disclaimers' say). 
</quote>

This was taken from the CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial
Email) web pages, specifically: http://www.cauce.org/legislation.html
That page also informs about other pending legislation in the U.S.A.


 
>  On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Thomas Ribbrock wrote:
> 
> > > So its law in the US????? I doubt if thats true is
> it??????
> Oh, believe it dude.

Please take care to quote correctly - the above sentence is not from me...

HTH. HAND.

Thomas
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