Re: legislation

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:32:40 +0100, Jan Meijer <Jan.Meijer@localhost
wrote:

> Virginia makes some progress in lawmaking:
> 
> http://members.aol.com/acluva/freespeech.htm
> 
> although it's been opposed.  Don't know if this is old news.
> 
Not that old, see:-

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=991&typ=bil&val=hb1714
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=991&typ=bil&val=hb1668
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=991&typ=bil&val=sb881

As of 23 Feb, they seem to be on their way to becoming law.

All have nearly identical language.  They would make it illegal to send UBE
via an ISP whose rules forbid it, forbid unauthorised use of a computer
system (relay rape), forbid selling spamware, allow spam recipients and
ISPs each to collect $10/spam up to $25K/day. 

GWM (B.)