:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 6.16.2003 ::
:: The SPAM Wars ::
From CNET News.com:
Bill would let spamees sue spammers
By Declan McCullagh
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York joined with the Christian Coalition to announce support for a new bill that would create a national "Do Not Spam" registry of e-mail addresses and, unlike other federal proposals to date, give individuals the right to sue spammers for $1,000 per unlawful message.
In a second unusual twist, Schumer's Stop Pornography and Abusive Marketing (SPAM) Act generally requires that unsolicited commercial e-mail include "ADV"--for advertisement--in subject lines. But the SPAM bill has been questioned because certain industry groups, such as the Direct Marketing Association, could qualify for a loophole that would permit them to send bulk e-mail without placing ADV on their messages.
Schumer's proposal has also been criticized because it could endanger legitimate Internet services such as "anonymous remailers" and would give marketers access to the complete do-not-spam list.
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