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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/20-Oct-03

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Sender pays solution to spam --Would a system that charges spammers per message be effective in reducing the amount of unsolicited commercial email we receive? And what effect would it have on legitimate mailings, such as free weekly electronic newsletters? (3 messages)

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CA spam law article errata -- Brady Johnson, who wrote last week's article on California's anti-spam laws, makes a correction and explores a few issues raised by readers. (1 message)

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If the CA law won't help -- More discussion of anti-spam measures, including ways of shifting the economic burden of spam, and discerning which messages in fact qualify as spam. (5 messages)

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