[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.

[OldFriend]

What does it say about people who rush to get on massive government lists but scream about the Patriot Act taking away their civil liberties........

[browardchad]

Oh, geesh, not this garbage again. Now the media will crow about the problem being solved due to the intrepid idiots in the Senate saving the world for the terminally stupid.

[HAL9000]

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.

If an off-shore business is promoting a U.S.-based business, that business may be held accountable.

I think this legislation will help after a few of these spamming scumbags get prosecuted.

[xrp]

Not to mention that the legislative effect of the laws of the United States of America end at America's physical borders. There are no borders in the virtual landscape of the Internet.

If I were a spammer, I'd just relocate my spamming servers outside the USA and start target the tens of millions of American email addresses.

[TheEngineer]

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.

That was my first thought, also, about the stupidity of putting my email address on a public list.

I hate spam as much or more than most... But this problem won't get solved by govt-mandate. Private enterprise will perfect a solution, eventually. In the meantime, I use the spamcop.net service -- and it works fairly well.