[Ecommerce] Spammer Sentencing Guidelines Released

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  Finnaly sentancing guidelines for Spammers is available.

  The United States Sentencing Commission has issued its
[1]guidelines for punishment under the CAN-SPAM act
(PDF, beginning on page 155). You can get 5 years for a
second offense or if you're spamming for fraud, child porn
or other felony, or 1 to 3 years depending on how much
spam you send. If Congress doesn't say otherwise, it goes
into effect November 1."
See:  http://www.ussc.gov/2004guid/rfJan04.pdf

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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