McBurnett, Jim wrote:

To be blunt: It seems that your opinion is: If a company wants to dump trash in my email account and they are able to find an ISP who is so blindly just taking a payment and cares less about what who they provide service to, so be it, I don't care.

I did not even know that's what the proposal was about - I did say I objected to the whole having not even read it - simply because of the holier-than-thou wording of that specific paragraph.

Well to that sir, I say this: In the United States capitalism is a way of life, but YOUR freedom's only extend to the point at which they impeach upon MY freedoms, at which point you and every SPAMMER out there IS WRONG. I have sent several letters as of recent to my congressional representatives with the points that a business cannot and should allow their services to be used to force feed me unsolicited email. And that any provider that does may be fined...

Why do many - especially the uneducated and ignorant ones I suppose ? - assume that everyone lives under US jurisdiction ? I dislike SPAM, I have my own tools to fight SPAM and I have been doing it for quite some time thanks. When some meta-literate comes along telling me that their proposal is perfection and that anyone not believing their preaching is the enemy, I get annoyed. Live with it. Peter