> Some potential restrictions of which I would approve:
>
> 1. requiring senders of unsolicited commercial to maintain a list of every
> address to which its sent its email, _and_ requiring it not to send more
> than one email to an address on that list in some time period (e.g., two
> years), unless the recipient has specifically responded to solicit
> further mail. This would give one free spam, after which the spammer could
> not send more unless requested.
Hmm. "More than one email" on any subject, with any content,
or just with substantially the same content?
Terry, you're welcome to try to compose such legislation,
but I doubt that you could avoid confronting the 14th
Amendment, by establishing "spammers" as second-class
citizens, lacking protections that the rest of us enjoy.
It's true that the federal government has repeatedly done
that -- "reds" in the 50s, "child molesters" now. It's quite
possible that the distinction may one day fall on spammers.
But I wonder if that's what you're really aiming at.
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