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You yanks think you rule the world. Iraq will bite you on the *ss and so will this can spam act. Why? Well my count of spam email has increased by around 20% since the act came into force. So straight away it is ineffective, and unenforceable. And of course as usual in the public service, you have decided to pursue honest business operators instead of using your resources to fix the real problem. The problem can be easily fixed and here is how. Every spam list seller/renter has a customer who buys or rents the list. Ergo if you prosecute the RENTER and send a few to jail quicksmart, the spammers will die out. So when are you going to open my regular mail for signs of unsolicited commercial mail? Especially if a friend writes me a letter to tell me about something I should perhaps buy? What about postcard decks? You better open them up to see if any of the companies I have put myself on the do not mail list are still sending postcards to me. If you want to return the internet back to the academics and military, then come out and say so. Shut down all commercial ISP's and we get back to regular snail mail marketing. Finally, I discover a lot of information that is very useful to my business as a result of newsletters, and other soources where I have legitimately left my email address. A lot of those newsletters are funded by advertisers. More than once I have bought products as a direct result. So basically you are interfering with my right to make commercial decisions for my self. Good luck reducing spam, you'll need it. What you don't need in your rapidly falling economy, is more shackles on genuine business