Slamming Bill

Slamming Bill (Anti-slamming Amendments Act, S. 1618) was a bill proposed in the United States Senate in 1998. It never passed. This bill is often mentioned by spammers in order to make a false impression that their spam is legal.

Bill

The bill originally dealt with telephone slamming. Some of its editions contained a controversial part which required senders of unsolicited email to include their name, electronic and physical address, and telephone number at the beginning of the message, and also to include "a statement that further transmissions of such mail to the recipient by the person may be stopped at no cost to the recipient by sending a reply to the originating electronic mail address with the word "remove" in the subject line".

A bill must be passed by both Senate and House to become a law. One edition of the bill passed by the Senate but not the House. Another edition was passed by the House but not by the Senate, and only after this controversial part had been discarded due to public protests.[1]

Therefore, the bill is not a law.

Why the spammer's claim is incorrect

Problems with the bill

References

  1. Wired.com
  2. 1 2 SPAM - Senate Bill 1618 Archived October 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
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