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From: denbeste@bbn.com (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: From Risks Digest: "Advertising vs the net"
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Date: 6 Apr 89 19:31:44 GMT
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The following was posted originally to news.admin and comp.org.ieee,
and was quoted in comp.risks, from whence I stole it:

"California Assembly Bill AB576 (not yet passed into law) states
that a person who uses a machine that electronically transmits messages
or facsimiles of documents through connection with a telephone network
to transmit unsolicited material for the sale of any realty, goods, or
services is guilty of a misdemeanor.

"The IEEE San Diego Section Bulletin (from which the above is excerpted)
states that the SD-IEEE propose supporting that Bill

"Apparently this is an attempt to control FAX junkmail."

The original poster then goes on to conjecture that it might also affect
product announcements on the net here.

I think not. The key word here is "unsolicited". If a headline prompt says that
the article is advertising, and you type "y" to read it, then it is no longer
unsolicited.

Nonetheless, some of youse guys better watch yourselves. You may get extradited
to California to face charges.