[Numbers Guy]

Oh yeah, sign up your e-mail address for a do not spam list, then the spammers have your e-mail address for off-shore operations not subject to American law.

Congressmen are idiots.

[dmcnash]

So we know the intent of Congress vs spam, what are the unintended consequences?

[Bobby777]

HELLO SENATORS ... no "do not spam" list is necessary ... fine the company using the spam service $10 per unsolicited email ... for a company sending 8 million spams per day out of somebody's garage, it will get prohibitive real quick .. same with sole proprieterships ... give a 60-day grace period from Nov 1. ... then go get 'em Jan 1 ... (actually that's probably 61 days or so) ...

this will stop 90% of all spma ... in country or offshore if the company is American-based ... for other companies, blacklist their IP ...

[Revolting cat!]

They're breaking out Russian Shampanskoye bottles in Nigeria tonight!

[Cicero]

I'd be delighted if they outlaw span. But they should do it by criminalizing spam, not by compiling a list of email addresses.

[JRandomFreeper]

The U.S. Senate has voted to outlaw deceptive "spam" e-mail,

All these years, all of those experts, and the d@mn politicians still don't understand that Arapanet (original name) was designed to survive a nuclear war. Much easier to subvert the intentions of congress than survive a nuclear war.

Someone should read (out loud, and slowly, while pointing at the pictures) 'Pandora's Box' to the confused politicians, and see if they can draw an analogy.

/john

[harpo11]

How about forwarding the spam mail to some criminal investigation unit in order to track down, arrest and fine the damn spammers. I've had it with paying for a email service only to be constantly harrassed by spammers. It is time for them to pay the price for their invasion of our privacy and clogging up computer space with unwanted email.

Actually, I wish that Bill Gates would just come up with some way to zing the spammers back which would fry their servers with their own spam.

[LimitedPowers]

Great. So if I don't list my email address in this registry I'm tacitly agreeing to accept SPAM, I suppose. Thanks, US Senate: I get to pick from one of two evils now.

[mercy]

Sheesh! You mean those overstuffed unichs in DC are actually going to do something useful?

[technomage]

"do-not-spam" registry

Now THERE is a good idea. Put your E-mail(s) on a list that shows spammers what E-mails are live and functional.

My God, do these people in DC think at all?? Nope! They seem to do things just to do them.

They no not the ramifications of what they do.

Sad thing is, there are millions of people who will not know any better and place there E-mail addresses on this list. Within a few months they will be inundated with Viagra, porn, credit reporting, prescription drugs for less, mortgage refinancing, etc.

Plus, the additional traffic will put a burden on the system.

Yup, DC is not a place with a lot of brain power.

[Revolting cat!]

Deja vu War on Drugs again? Hit the businesses that use the spammers' services, not the spammers themselves who can hide in Freedonia, problem solved. Or, pray tell, are we too "pro-byznys" in this country?

[Graybeard58]

"The bill would not outlaw all unsolicited commercial e-mail, focusing instead on the fraudulent or deceptive messages estimated to make up two-thirds of all unsolicited commercial e-mail"


...and who is going to make this distinction? The title of this may as well be, "The U.S. Senate votes to piss against the wind"

[Fledermaus]

We are at war with fanatics that won't stop until we are all dead and now e-mail spam is a priority. I guess once they got their ridiculous "Do Not Call" list, they decided to move on.

I'm sick and tired of a lot of things like car alarms going off because the wind blew. I am annoyed by idiots that can post their stupidity on the internet and censor me because I call them the morons they are.

I'm tired of having to explain basic traffic laws to the other drivers when they block an intersection when I have a green light because they think they are entitled in their fancy car (this really happened leaving a concert once...I had a green light but the intersection was blocked. After 5 rounds they still filled the intersection and NO one could move on the cross street when they got a green light. I got out of my car and yelled "Hey, what's the deal, quit moving into the intersection unless you can clear it. Some idiot gave me the wave of the arms like "I can't help it, what's your problem?" I went to his vehicle and explained HIS problem holding the driving laws that I keep in my glove box and embarrassed him in front of his wife, kids and others in his giant SUV. He wanted a fight, he got it. He backed down.)

But we have to spend priorities on those that are just annoyed.

[Hank Rearden]

What about all the bullcrap we're always getting from politicians? Who do we go to, to stop that?

[Hank Rearden]

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I love spam.

I am longer, harder, and faster
My Viagra is cheap and delivery is free
I have the lowest mortgage rate in history
My breasts are firmer, bigger, tanner
I am a babe (and stud) magnet
My credit has never been better
I have $5 bills in my mailbox every day
I get Nigerian checks once a week
My webcam works perfectly
Russian girls are piling up on my doorstep
My inkjet printer cartridges cost damn near nothing
I have eight cell phones
I purchased three cars with good, bad or no credit
I attend forclosure sales in my area regularly
I buy houses and Ferraris for $100
I get awesome stock tips that pay off immediately
I play casino games on my computer til noon
There are hundreds of women that want to date me
And with all of the above, who can blame them?

[RussianConservative]

bump for read

[Redbob]

50%??
Try 90% spam!

[SoulStorms]

could face jail time and million-dollar fines under the bill

...And how much of those fines will find their way to the people who get spammed??

[FoxPro]

I spam my resume. I am an outsourcing manager for a firm in Moscow. http://gssconsultants.com/

I have 50 developers. They do Oracle, SQL Server, Java, J2ee, .NET and just about anything else for less than $20 per hour.

I put the team together while on a sailboat in Central America this winter. I went sailing because nobody will higher me and I lost my wife and house.

Now that is doing business internationally.

This large trucking company thought it would cost them $250,000 to update their applications to .NET; we did it for $45,000. We beat the Indians on price by $10,000.

[etcetera]

So does this lead to a cure for heroin addiction?