Hi, I'd like to share my crystal ball. The jurisdictions which pass spam control laws that require 'permission' will actually foster spam. The new format for spam will be: May I send you correspondences? Blahblahblahblah To stop future correspondence please send an unsubscription request to: f00@bar.dingbat -- -- What these laws will actually do is require more effort on the part of consumers. Further, the 'valid address' requirements would be fulfilled by a simple -single- subscription to a free mail service. This mailbox of course would never actually be read. What this will do is increase the load on the 'free' services, causing many of them to cease to exist. It in effect increases the lower bounds on resources needed to participate in this great democratic-technocratic experiment we call the Internet. These laws are 'bad' things. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help@open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com