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• Spam is no more a form of criminal trespass than getting junk mail in your mailbox. If spam is illegal, then it should be illegal for businesses to stuff all that crap in your mailbox! Just think of all the trees it would save! The big difference is, you just have to push the delete key to get rid of the spam, the junk mail has to be hauled out to the trash or to the recycling box. Also, under the Can-Spam act, the mailer has to identify himself, provide an address whereby the recipient can be removed from the mailing list, and the mailer has to disclose who is paying him and how much he is receiving in compensation to conduct the mailing. Why does this not apply to junk mail? There is no 800 number to call to be removed from the junk mail list, nor does the sender have to identify himself or disclose who is paying him or how much he is receiving. This seems like a double standard to me. Bottom line, make junk snail mail as well as spam illegal, or leave them both alone. If the argument can be made that junk snail mail is an expression of freedom of speech, then spam should be treated no differently. In reply to: "Why Virginia is right to overturn spam conviction"

  September 13, 2008

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