This move may indicate that they plan to move their off-line marketing of preapproved credit cards onto the Net, he added. The bill criminalizes including false sender information and other false header data and requires unsolicited commercial e-mail to be labeled as such. Wilson said the bill will reduce the amount of spam because of the penalties, just as a similar law against unsolicited faxes did a few years ago. Junk faxes dried up after that. Catlett points out one difference.
Junk faxes are, by law, opt-in.
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