RE: Unauthorized use of SMTP Server

Robert F. O'Connor ( (no email) )
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:05:10 -0700

There is proposed legislation in Congress to amend Title 47 to include
unsolicited e-mail. Unfortunately (depending on your POV), muddying the
waters, there are two other much weaker SPAM bills, one of which would
simply require all spam to be unambiguously tagged "Advertisement" for
purposes of filtering and another which simply says "REMOVE" means
"REMOVE", which means you still get SPAM *and* have to waste your time
replying to it all. Details of all three bills can be found on the
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail site:
http://www.cauce.org/. They favor the Title 47 amendment over the
others, but details are available on all three.

If you care one way or the other (American list members ;-), write or
e-mail your congress-critter and let them know how you feel.

We still need refinements to the SMTP RFCs, though. I'd like to see a
way for primary mail servers to update backup mail servers with lists of
acceptable domains to accept mail from for forwarding.

-Robert F. O'Connor
Metro.Net System Administrator
sysadmin@metro.net

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> Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of SMTP Server
>
> Correct this is only for Fax machines , as the US Title 47 basically
> describes electronic publishing that is been transmitted over phone
> lines.
> The US has NOT defined any laws regarding the e-mail and the internet.
> The
> same as they never did anything against Cellular Phone Cloning, only
> talking and big media hunts but never really pushed legislations
>
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> At 08:39 PM 7/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >That might be. I had been told that this was the Title that recently
> (and
> >successfully) snagged Spamford in court. I could have been given
> erroneous
> >info though.
> >
> >Anybody here able to look this one up ?
> >
> >-Ric
> >
> >
> >At 08:20 PM 7/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B)
> >>> This email address may not be added to any commercial mail
> >>
> >>
> >>I do believe that is the Fax machine clause and no e-mail version of
> it
> >>exists.
> >>
> >>Tom
> >>
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