[Random-bits] Colorado Spam law

[James Love]

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 


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