WOOHOO!!! ZAP SPAM!!!

Oh funny! I just this minute sat down to post this very article.

I'm happy about it. I hope it becomes the first in a wave of similar legislation, rather than something that just drives businesses out of Virginia.

One to five years for junk email? I'm not a spam-fan, but couldn't a higher court find that to be cruel and unusual?

Not just for junk email but by taking very extreme measures to try to get away with very severe spamming.

I know I haven't defined it clearly but this isn't an effort to stop Jow Blow from sending out his invitations to his poetry site. It's an attempt to stop spammers who deal in huge amounts of SPAM and who fake logs, email headers, etc to try to get away with it.

I get the point. But, this Q: could the same standard be held for conventional junk-mailers, whose solicitations, though more innocuous, have a far more pernicious effect than the annoyance caused by the electronic version?

There are already is a law governing phone solicitations, and a person's right to opt out. I believe the anti-spam law would be along the same lines.

The amount (and content) of some of the spam I get on several accounts is beyond shocking. Beyond that, the fact that the kiddies use the internet (and email) is a good enough reason to do something about spam...

SPAM drives me nuts
I have to clean out at least 40 SPAM hits every day before I can get to the e-mail I want to read. And I block every hit, but they keep coming.

Enough is enough!

BumbleBeeBoogie

I abandoned my Yahoo email because Yahoo actively recruits spam email to one's inbox.