Spam coding help request
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Thu Mar 22 22:34:21 PST 2001
Assume the below bill becomes law. Would anyone care to write a program
that violates this law and send it to me in the next 10 hours? I would be
glad to give you full credit in my weekly column, which is why I'm writing
this. Heck, maybe a procmail-formail combination would do it.
This might be the easiest to code for:
''(i) is designed or produced primarily for the purpose of concealing the
source or routing information of bulk unsolicited electronic mail messages
in a manner prohibited by subparagraph (D) of this paragraph;
-Declan
SEC. 2. PROTECTION FROM FRAUDULENT UNSOLICITED E-MAIL.
Section 1030 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
(1) in subsection (a)(5)
(A) by striking ''or'' at the end of subparagraph (B); and
(B) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:
''(D) intentionally and without authorization initiates the transmission of
a bulk unsolicited electronic mail message to a protected computer with
knowledge that such message falsifies an Internet domain, header
information, date or time stamp, originating e-mail address, or other
identifier; or
''(E) intentionally sells or distributes any computer program that
''(i) is designed or produced primarily for the purpose of concealing the
source or routing information of bulk unsolicited electronic mail messages
in a manner prohibited by subparagraph (D) of this paragraph;
''(ii) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than
to conceal such source or routing information; or
''(iii) is marketed by the violator or an- other person acting in concert
with the violator and with the violator's knowledge for use in concealing
the source or routing information of such messages'';
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