What are the spamming laws?
Discord23
Hi all,
I'm new to the group and have read all the messages for the past two
or three days. I keep seeing people referring to anti-spamming laws,
but I didn't know there were any. Could someone help me out and tell
me what the laws are on spamming? Where can I find more information?
Thanks much!
Dan B.
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Language used in the law that outlawed "junk faxes" can also be applied to a
e-mail address accessed from a computer.
There are bills currently going through congress which apply to spam, but
they are all mixed up, some banning it, some allowing it if it conforms to
certain rules, etc.
Washington state has outlawed it in state law RCW 19, stating that "no
unsolicited commercial electronic mail message may originate from a computer
located in washington state, or be sent to a washington state residents
electronic mail address.
It also states that "Damages to the recipient of an unsolicited commercial
electronic mail message are to be $500, or actual damages, which ever is
greater.
Spammers ignore the laws.
-jack
Mike Dowling
Discord23> Hi all,
Discord23> I'm new to the group and have read all the messages for the
Discord23> past two or three days. I keep seeing people referring to
Discord23> anti-spamming laws, but I didn't know there were any. Could
Discord23> someone help me out and tell me what the laws are on
Discord23> spamming? Where can I find more information?
Laws about spamming are irrelevant. For a start, it's an international
problem. How is the USA, for example, going to stop a spam from Taiwan
via legislation?
Besides, it's extremely hard to find out who the real spammers are
anyway; they forge their email headers.
The best options are, in order of merit
1. Don't accept email from relays used by spammers.
Look at the headers of your email. The spammer almost always used an
innocent third party to relay his spam. Use "whois" to find out who
is responsible for abuse at that site, and ban all email from that
source if there is nobody responsible, or if you do not get a
satisfactory reaction.
This option has the additional merit that it encourages systems
administrators to forbid relaying. Without relaying, spamming would
be virtually impossible.
2. Don't accept email from domains that cannot be resolved by the
nameserver.
Such email is almost always from a spammer who faked the From: header
to something like "megabuck.com", or something. It will only misfire
if a legitimate sender has not configured his computer or domain
correctly. Such users should do themselves and the world a favour
and configure things properly.
3. Ban email from domains that frequently appear in the From: header in
spams.
The trouble with this is that this line is almost always forged, so
you will be banning an innocent party. Spammers like domains line
aol.com, compuserv.com, hotmail.comm, uunet.net etc because they
reason, rightly, that few sites could possibly afford to ban email
apparently being sent from such sources. For that reason, I do not
ban them (with hotmail.com as the only exception) from my users. All
of these are banned on my own Linux PC though. That stops a lot of
spam, and it rarely happens that legitimate email is also bounced.
Cheers,
Mike Dowling