State of Michigan sends out "anti-spam" letter

[quest]

Wow Alex,
What can anyone say except my state certainly sucks...

I did get the following from the ACLU site though:

The ACLU has brought other successful challenges to state "harmful-to-minors" laws in Michigan, New Mexico, New York, Arizona and Vermont. A case brought in Virginia also resulted in a "harmful-to-minors" law being struck down. The ACLU noted that the state challenges were successful because of the impossibility of verifying the age as well as location of Internet users, as the law requires.

Not sure what those "successful challenges" were though.

Doesn't seem such a thing could ever hold up in court,
More than likely there looking for money as Jennifer [the Governor]
has pretty much broke the state.

Here is an online ACLU Michigan complaint form:
http://www.aclumich.org/modules.php?name=Complaint_Form


Ben

[spacemanspiff]

Seems to me that if they really wanted to protect those email addresses from UCE they would make their database available for download for free. It wouldn't be that hard to come up with a script to compare the databases. Hell, I think I could do it, and I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag.

[MonsterPartners]

Originally Posted by spacemanspiff

Seems to me that if they really wanted to protect those email addresses from UCE they would make their database available for download for free. It wouldn't be that hard to come up with a script to compare the databases. Hell, I think I could do it, and I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag.

Exactly, if protection was so important, databases should be free. Instead they charge what could amount to very large sums of money. Just another government money grab