Subject: Re: Please make it stop..
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/12/1998 16:14:39
At 12:30 -0700 1998-06-11, Andrew Gillham wrote:
>seebs@plethora.net writes:
>> In message <199806111624.MAA05107@ghost.whirlpool.com>, Andrew Gillham
>>writes:
>> >According to the effective date (30 days after the date of enactment),
>> >assuming May 12, 1998 is the enactment date, today should be the first
>> >day this bill is enforceable.  I'm not a lawyer.  I am making assumptions,
>> >but this unidentified SPAM *should* be illegal starting today or tomorrow.
>> >(and can be reported to the Federal Trade Commission)
>>
>> No such luck, it's not law yet; only passed by part of the government.
>>
>> Also, note that the FTC doesn't care.  :)
>
>Yup, I wasn't paying attention.  If it passes into law, we'll be set.

s/set/well and truly fscked/

See <http://www.cauce.org/newbillanalysis.html> for reasons why.
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Joel "Espy" Klecker
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