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Subject: [registrars] FW: Senate passes anti-Spam bill
From: "Elana Broitman" <ebroitman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:37:44 -0500
Sender: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: AcO0KscYTKiAZ05fQ36u00EF7BpGoQAAAzZA
Thread-topic: Senate passes anti-Spam bill

> Hi - I thought you'd want to see this news of a likely new anti-spam law.  While it is not explicitly targeting the DNS, there are implications for our businesses.  I would be interested in anything you are hearing on this issue.> >  <<Welcome to the Mercury News on Bayarea.com.htm>>

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<span class="headline">Senate passes spam bill</span><br>

<b><span class="deck">FINAL OK NEAR FOR NATIONAL LAW</span></b><br>

<b><font size="-1"><span class="byline">By Heather Fleming Phillips</span></font></b><br>

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<p><b><span class="dateline">WASHINGTON</span><span class="dateline-separator"> - </span></b>Federal legislation aimed at curbing the explosion of unsolicited e-mails clogging computer networks cleared its last major hurdle in Congress on Tuesday, with the Senate voting unanimously to approve it.</p>
<p>The bill would give federal officials new legal tools to prosecute the sleaziest of spammers, who make fraudulent claims to peddle their wares. Illegal spammers would face fines of $250 for each e-mail pitch, up to $6 million for the most egregious offenders. It would also authorize the federal government to create a national do-not-spam registry, modeled after the popular telephone do-not-call list.</p>
<p>``The big-time spammers are going to face some consequences when they flood our citizens with this trash and this pornography,'' said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a chief sponsor of the anti-spam bill.</p>
<p>But consumer groups and anti-spam activists say the measure is unlikely to make a real dent in spam, and they're concerned that it will pre-empt tougher anti-spam measures passed by California and other states. Under California's new law which is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, all unsolicited commercial e-mail pitches would be banned except from businesses that have existing relationships with customers.</p>
<p>The House already approved the measure Saturday in a 392-5 vote. Because the Senate made minor changes to it Tuesday, the House will have to take it up for a final vote next week.</p>
<p>President Bush supports the measure and plans to sign it into law.</p>
<p>The explosion of spam is threatening the efficiency and convenience of the Internet, as consumers get turned off by inboxes overflowing with e-mails promoting pornography, Viagra and get-rich-quick schemes.</p>
<p>Businesses face an estimated $10 billion a year in lost productivity, software expenses and other costs because of spam.</p>
<p>But getting to a solution has been no easy task. Consumer groups, technology companies and direct-marketing organizations have been feuding for years over the best way to solve the problem. Technology companies lobbied heavily to get a federal bill passed this year, just in time to pre-empt the tough new California law.</p>
<p>The national law will require that e-mail marketers include a feature in their ads to allow consumers to opt out of future e-mails. It also forbids senders of commercial e-mail from disguising themselves by using incorrect return e-mail addresses or misleading subject lines, and sets criminal penalties for those who do.</p>
<p>The bill prohibits harvesting e-mail addresses from Web sites. E-mail containing pornography would have to be flagged in the subject line. It would direct the Federal Trade Commission to set up a do-not-spam registry of consumer e-mail addresses, even though FTC Chairman Tim Muris has said such a plan would be a waste of time because spammers would just ignore it.</p>
<p>A Federal Trade Commission study conducted earlier this year found that two-thirds of spam contains a false claim, and that, at most, 16.5 percent of spam is from legitimate advertisers peddling legal products.</p>
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<i><span class="tagline">Mercury News wire services contributed to this report.<br />
 Contact Heather Phillips at <a href="mailto:hphillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>hphillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</a> or (202) 383-6020.</span></i>
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