Subject: re: Anti-spam legislation in WA (off-topic but of interest)
To: port-mac68k mailing list <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Steve Revilak <revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/17/1998 22:26:22
SamMaEl <rimsky@teleport.com> wrote:

>Subject:
>	I know there are at least a few people from this list that live in
>WA, like myself, and I don't know if any of them or anyone else has heard
>of this decision, but the Washington State Legislature has passed a bill
>against unsolicited commercial bulk-email. And, it HAS been signed
>into law, effective 90 days from March 27th, 1998 (ie. NOW). Take a look
>at:

TidBits (a Mac-devoted web site) is doing precisely that--having received
something like 35 identical messages from a spammer.  They have an
elaborate sysnopsis of the legal dealings for the curious-minded.  The URL
is

http://www.tidbits.com/anti-spam/

Steve Revilak
revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu