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Va will rewrite antispam law

By | March 31, 2009, 8:09am PDT

No surprise, now that the Supreme Court has rejected Virginia’s appeal of a state court ruling that its antispam law is unconstitutional, the Attorney General will rewrite the law and submit it to the General Assembly, the AP reports.

“We are dedicated to protecting all Virginians from unscrupulous spammers who fraudulently send millions of unsolicited garbage email messages,” [AG Bill Mimms] said in a written statement.

Perhaps Jaynes will now be prosecuted under federal law, or the legislature will move quickly to pass a new state antispam law.

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Nuisance spammers should be caned
John L. Ries Updated - 1st Apr 2009
..or maybe a couple of days in the stocks. Spammers are too much like gamblers for fining to have much effect (when you have dollar signs in your eyes, a fine starts looking like a business expense).

Jail time would work, too, but spamming strikes me as the sort of offense where corporal punishment and humiliation are likely to be sufficient deterrents (and jails are overcrowded, anyway).
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Good thing for the spammers...
John L. Ries 31st Mar 2009
...that the Virginia General Assembly won't be meeting again until January (barring the possibility of a special session). Maybe the DMA can send a few extra lobbyists to make sure the issue never comes to a vote at all (after all, the session is constitutionally limited to 45 days).
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RE: Va will rewrite antispam law
madrucke@... 1st Apr 2009
I hate SPAM! Period. It chokes the net and sometimes my in box.

There *is* a difference between spam with criminal intent and nuisance advertising spam.

The criminals should be castrated, drawn and quartered!

The nuisance spammers should be seriously fined for not adhereing to opt-out wishes.

For off shore criminal spammers they are a threat to national security and we should send in covert teams to silence them by whatever means necessary!

Mike Sr.
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Nuisance spammers should be caned
John L. Ries Updated - 1st Apr 2009
..or maybe a couple of days in the stocks. Spammers are too much like gamblers for fining to have much effect (when you have dollar signs in your eyes, a fine starts looking like a business expense).

Jail time would work, too, but spamming strikes me as the sort of offense where corporal punishment and humiliation are likely to be sufficient deterrents (and jails are overcrowded, anyway).

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