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ENC: [Sbc-l] finalmente comecam as leis anti-spam [forwarded from Mauro C.Pereira_1h]


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De: Marcos Castilho
Enviada em: domingo, 4 de maio de 2003 15:45
Para: prof@inf.ufpr.br
Assunto: [Sbc-l] finalmente comecam as leis anti-spam [forwarded from
Mauro C.Pereira_1h]



Parece que não sou o único a odiar spams...

       Marcos
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Pessoal,
    parece que no exterior se cansaram de spam. Vejam nos EUA o comeco
de leis anti-spami... O link esta abaixo, a copia sem formatacao esta ao
final.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-999020.html
Saudacoes,
    Mauro
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Lawmakers finally fed up with spam

By Declan McCullagh
CNET News.com
May 1, 2003, 4:40 AM PT

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WASHINGTON--Washington is officially fed up with spam.

The deluge of unsolicited bulk e-mail has snarled networks, clogged
servers, and created such a public nuisance that new laws are necessary,
participants concluded during the first day of a three-day government
summit on spam.

Exactly how a law might be worded will be discussed later this week, but
companies told the Federal Trade Commission that they need help
urgently. AOL Time Warner's America Online, for instance, said its spam
volume has doubled in the last two months, with more than 2 billion
unsolicited e-mail messages arriving every day.

For Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., it's personal: He told the crowd that
his 14-year-old daughter was inundated with spam promoting pornographic
Web sites and that he was "utterly amazed" to learn that no federal
criminal laws existed to punish that practice. In response, Schumer
said, he asked his staff to draft a set of bills that would create a
national "do not e-mail" list and levy criminal penalties on repeat
offenders.

The first federal antispam bill was introduced in 1997, and after six
years of closed-door wrangling and repeated delays, Congress still has
not acted. But consumer outrage and complaints from legitimate
businesses have been keeping pace with the growth of bulk e-mail. Now
it's open season on spam in Washington.

Schumer said his legislation is still being drafted but likely will have
three levels of penalties: a warning, then $5,000-a-day fines, and
finally jail time of up to two years for repeat offenders. He predicted
it was a certainty that a comprehensive antispam law would be enacted by
the end of 2004.

In addition to Schumer's proposed legislation, which he said will be
finished in May:

? This week, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., proposed a second bill that
would require commercial advertisers to tag messages with "ADV:" if they
do not have a pre-existing relationship with the recipient. Violators
could be sued by the FTC or an Internet service provider.

? The FTC said its analysis of 1,000 spam messages suggests that
two-thirds of the bulk mail piling up in in-boxes contains claims that
are probably false. E-mail offering investment and business
opportunities was even more likely to be fraudulent, with about 96
percent of such messages containing false or misleading information,
according to the FTC's estimate.

? About 79 percent of Americans want ISPs to treat pornographic spam
differently than other types of unsolicited e-mail, according to a
survey commissioned by Bigfoot Interactive that is scheduled to be
released Thursday. The random digit-dialing survey of 1,023 people,
conducted by RoperASW, also found that 38 percent of respondents said
legitimate e-mail was accidentally lost.

? Spam foes have long sought national legislation to rein in unsolicited
bulk commercial e-mail, but efforts have been slow to bear fruit amid
free-speech concerns and opposition from marketing groups. As a result,
states have taken the lead in crafting antispam measures so far, with
Virginia this week enacting additional criminal penalties for
high-volume spammers who forge "From:" lines.

? Earlier this month, senators Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Ron Wyden,
D-Ore., reintroduced a bill that they first drafted in 1999 that would
make it a federal crime to use a false address when sending spam.

In the afternoon, panelists warned that spammers were using not just
open mail relays, but open proxies to send bulk messages
near-anonymously. Open proxies typically are misconfigured Web servers
on a digital subscriber line or cable modem that permit spammers to use
them as relay points for outgoing e-mail and cloak their identity in the
process.

Matt Sergeant, an antispam technologist at MessageLabs, said people who
accidentally configure their computers to be open proxies often didn't
mean to do so. "They don't get to find out that they've been
blacklisted," Sergeant said. "They didn't know they have an insecure
system. So they can't solve the problem."

Sergeant estimated that the number of open proxies is doubling every
five to six months.

Scott Richter, president of online marketing firm OptinRealBig.com, said
his company only contacts people who have expressed a desire to receive
information or have an existing relationship with a client. Still,
Richter said, mail providers such as Yahoo and AOL have made it too easy
for users to report legitimate e-mail as spam.

"They're reporting e-mail as spam that isn't spam because they've been
enticed to do it," Richter said. "There's no way for us to respond.
That's a big problem in the industry. The people sending the mail don't
have the opportunity." He complained of the type of antispam activist
who "tries to do collateral damage or force you off an ISP" as the
result of an unfounded allegation.

Thursday's sessions are devoted to calculating the cost of spam and
evaluating how big a problem wireless spam has become. On Friday,
panelists will discuss legal means to target spammers, including
lawsuits, federal laws and--because nearly half of spam comes from
outside the United States--how international efforts might work.



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