[ga] FYi from Politech.com: Weekly column: Be wary of Washington's solutions to spam

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

All stakeholders, assembly members or other interested parties,

FYI:

http://news.com.com/2010-1074-957024.html?tag=politech

    Be wary of Washington's spam solution
    By Declan McCullagh
    September 9, 2002, 4:00 AM PT

    WASHINGTON--About three dozen high-level lobbyists met quietly last
    Friday afternoon at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to concoct a way to
    drastically reduce the deluge of unsolicited e-mail.

    The invitation-only lunch meeting, which lasted about two hours,
    started a process that could result in an industry agreement on new
    laws or self-regulation.

    Lobbyists for AOL Time Warner, Verizon, the National Cable and
    Telecommunications Association, and the Direct Marketing Association
    were among the attendees. According to the invitation, the group met
    to discuss "approaches to addressing problems arising from abusive
    electronic mail practices."

    All that sounds pretty good, right? After all, who could be against
    efforts to reduce the heaps of spam that are snarling mail servers,
    clogging connections and making our in-boxes approximately as useful
    as a 10MB hard drive? One of my News.com colleagues estimates that
    spam soon will make up the majority of message traffic on the
    Internet.

    But Washington rarely has the best solution. When you dump a passel
of
    lawyers and lobbyists in a room, dub them a working group and close
    the door, they end up crafting new laws and regulations. And new
laws
    and regulations from Washington simply won't stop spam.

    [...]




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