.:>>:.Go to CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 .:>>:.

The Act is a great read on what legislation is being considered and how Congress views spam, including the following observations:

Unsolicited commercial electronic mail may impose significant monetary costs on providers of Internet access services, businesses, and educational and nonprofit institutions that carry and receive such mail, as there is a finite volume of mail that such providers, businesses, and institutions can handle without further investment in infrastructure.

In legislating against certain abuses on the Internet, Congress should be very careful to avoid infringing in any way upon constitutionally protected rights, including the rights of assembly, free speech, and privacy.

The Congress determines that:
(1) there is a substantial government interest in regulation of unsolicited commercial electronic mail;
(2) senders of unsolicited commercial electronic mail should not mislead recipients as to the source or content of such mail; and
(3) recipients of unsolicited commercial electronic mail have a right to decline to receive additional unsolicited commercial electronic mail from the same source. Posted by: Anonymous at 7:58 AM  |  Permalink