CAUCE NORTH AMERICA NEWS, Vol 11, No 2, December 2009
John Levine
CAUCE News, Volume 11, Number 2
December 2009
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The Decade in Spam
CAUCE's Neil Schwartzman is posting a series of landmarks in spam from
2000 to 2009, with a summary for one year posted each day. You can
follow it [1]here on the CAUCE web site.
In [2]2000: Direct Marketing Association launches e-MPS--a 'do not
spam' list of email addresses. CAUCE and other anti-spam groups decry
the service as useless window dressing ...
In [3]2001: 1,000,000 British Internet users at ISP Pipex taken offline
by spam. ...
In [4]2002: A debate organized by the Libertarian (and rabidly
anti-anti-spam law) CATO Institute sees participants lambasting the DMA
and CATO's proposed approach to spam. ...
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Update on Canada's Anti-spam Bill C-27 Electronic Commerce Protection
Act
Bill C-27 was passed by the House of Commons on November 30. It had
many minor amendments (some drafted with CAUCE's help), all of which
preserved its important features of requiring opt-in for e-mail
advertisements, and providing several avenues of recourse for
recipients of illegal ads.
It then moved to the Senate, where it has had two readings and was
referred to committee. The Senate committee will likely consider it
when it returns after the Christmas and New Year's recess. Some
Senators appear to want to water down or remove its key opt-in
provisions, which would make it as ineffective as the CAN SPAM law in
the U.S. We hope they can be persuaded not to do that.
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What you can do
* If you live in Canada, we'll have advice in January when Parliament
returns to contact Senators and tell them how important it is to
support C-27 with the current opt-in language, not the opt-out
proposed by a few short-sighted business organizations.
* Keep up to date with the [5]CAUCE Twitter feed and the [6]CAUCE web
site.
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