[Ecommerce] Colorado Spam law

[Cem Kaner]

looks good to me. I don't see any difference between commercial and non-commercial spam.

At 12:12 AM 2/19/00 -0500, James Love wrote:
>A Colorado legislative committee approves anti-spam bill, that would
>require ADV label on unsolicited spam, and make no distinction between
>commercial and non-commerical spam.
>
>   Jamie 
>
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>http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000218/09/internet-spam
>
>Updated 9:46 AM ET February 18, 2000
>
>   DENVER (AP) - Internet spammers would have to slap a crystal-clear
>"advertisement" label on all electronic junk mail and provide an easy
>way for consumers to scratch their names from mailing lists under a bill
>passed Thursday by a state House committee. 
>
>   Before approving the bill by a 10-2 vote, the House Business Affairs
>and Labor Committee toughened the rules further by adding politicians
>and nonprofit groups to the mailers who must use the dreaded "ADV:"
>label. 
>
>   The tag must appear at the beginning of any junk mail's subject memo,
>which appears in consumers' lists of new e-mail and guides them on what
>they wish to read. 
>
>   [snip]
>
>   Any individual computer user receiving mail that violates the law
>could sue the sender for $10 for each message. But the bill also allows
>that customer's Internet service provider to collect hundreds or
>thousands of bad messages sent through its main computers and sue the
>mailer for $10 on each one, providing the incentive of millions of
>dollars in potential damages. 
>
>-- 
>James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
>v. 1.202.387.8030, fax 1.202.234.5176
>love@cptech.org, http://www.cptech.org
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