United States Heads Towards Legalization of Spam! TY Billy Tauzin R-La

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With all of Europe set to implement Opt-in legislation by October, Europe has taken the lead in banning spam and is no longer waiting for the United States to stop the huge American spam problem, problem that most of Europe suffers from with over 90% of all spam hitting Europe being sent by American (mostly Florida-based) spammers.

But the United States is going in the opposite direction to Europe and is now set to explode the spam problem far worse than it is today, incredibly by actually legalizing Unsolicited Bulk Email instead of banning it. The United States Congress is just months away from giving Unsolicited Bulk Email the green light and unleashing the spamming power of 23 Million American small businesses onto an Internet which already can not cope with the billions of unsolicited bulk mailings sent by just 200 current businesses.

A slurry of pro-spam bills are now before the US Congress, each one claiming to be an anti-spam bill, each one seeking to regulate and legalize spamming. All anti-spam organizations are crying out these Bills are seriously flawed and the introduction of any of them into law would be a disaster for the Internet. The worst of these Bills was until recently the Burns-Wyden CAN-SPAM Act, known as the "You CAN Spam" Act because it simply tells spammers that as long as they put "ADV" in the Subject of emails they can flood the mailboxes of 92 Million Americans legally. But even the disastrous Direct Marketing Association-backed 'CAN-SPAM' Act is overshadowed by the even more disastrous "Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act" backed by Billy Tauzin (R-LA), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.........

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from now until the vote.

by checking the "I would like spammynet to share my email address with spammynet's affiliates"

I am told yahoo reset them yet again. Go to the privacy policy and click the link "web beacons". It gives you an option to opt out. Also check your marketing preferences under your profile, and make sure you say no to everthing unless of coarse you're interested.

They are really on the wrong side of this issue...maybe we should set our filters to forward all spam e-mail to the RNC.