on 8/13/2002 2:34 PM Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: > The sort of law you suggest isn't hard conceptually. BTW, for other interested readers, the law that exists today for junk faxes and unsolicited sales calls in the US is the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (see http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/statutes/email/tcpa.html). People should read that act, it outlaws all kind of stuff, including things like automated sales calls. While it doesn't stop everything, it goes a long way. It is particularly effective with faxes. Extending the TCPA to include unsolicited commercial mail is our best collective hope at slowing down spam in the short term, although such an extension would most likely only be targeted at distributors rather than beneficiaries, at least in the first generation. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/