well it finally went to the white house.
 

CONGRESS Sends Can Spam Act to White House
InternetNews.com
The US House of Representatives approved Congress' final version of the
Can Spam Act of 2003 Monday, sending the landmark anti-spam legislation
to the White ...
<http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3286751>

interesting when i read more about it i'll make an intelligent comment.

basically the new law requires a remove link, and creates criminal penalties to anyone sending out mail with forged info. and the owner of any site that is advertised via these methods, regardless of whether or not eh spammer is tracked down.

and it bans cell phone spam, which iv never recieved but i guess its a big issue in some places.

the main points.

About the time

Hopefully this doesn't meet the same fate as the national do-not-call database.