Sensenbrenner and other committee members said they would rather boost ISPs' ability to block spam than try to regulate online commerce. As such, the bill they passed would require spammers to use a legitimate return address so ISPs could identify and block unwanted e-mail more readily. The committee also approved a measure requiring pornographic messages to be labeled despite concerns that it might run afoul of existing obscenity laws. A similar amendment that sought to label all spam was voted down. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said he thought the new bill did not go far enough to protect consumers, even if spam rarely amounted to little more than an annoyance.
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