Re: OT:Has a spam law been passed?

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:53:26 -0200 (BRST)


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net wrote:

> This spam talks about a anti spam law passed by the US, is it true...?

No. Bill S. 1618 has never been passed. Note that this does
make a good regexp since any email claiming to be compliant
with this bill is known to be spam.

This is also a nice illustration of:

Rule #1: spammers lie

Rik

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