Should there be more laws against spamming?

I think that the government has enough to worry about.

I’m more concerned about attacking people that spam fax machines first. That wastes paper and ink/toner. I was a janitor at a TV station in 2000 and there was so much spam that came through. Garbage cans full of it.

Yes, it disrupts the normal course of business and government and costs the consumers and taxpayers millions of dollars in wasted time and resources.

@johnpowell – agreed.
Also, I think we should be clear about law. Legislation creates statutes, but these arern’t laws, they are legislative rules based on contractual agreements. You have a contract with a company, which just happens to be your government, if you breach this contract you’ve dishonoured and thus are punished or fined.

Based on a common law juristiction, the only way you can break the law or commit a crime, is to break on of these fundamental rules:

Never cause loss.
Never cause damage.
Never cause harm.

These laws cover every eventuality and have been employed by civilizations for hundreds of years.

So if you send unwanted spam to a fax machine, you’ve caused loss to the individual who owns said fax machine. Spam email however, does not breach any of these fundamental laws unless it contains malware etc.

At the end of the day spam can be deleted fax toner is bloodywell expensive.

@YARNLADY
Good point I failed to see.
Afterall time is money, so no legislation required, existing laws cover this.
Although finding a de jour court is going to be a major problem if you haven’t done your homework.

Feh, they can’t enforce the ones they’ve already passed. The amount of spam email has actually increased since the passage of the CANSPAM act. What are more laws going to do about the problem?

@IchtheosaurusRex I am often bitten by the “lack of enforcement” bug also, but laws also serve the purpose of being there for those all too rare occasions when a miscreant is actually caught, and they at least have something on the books to charge him with.
Example: a man was caught using mirrors to photograph up women’s dresses. He was taken to jail, but there was no law against that to charge him with, so he went free.

Actually spamming can be done by hardware alone.. So its hard to make punishment to non-living things and spending much money to track the spammer. The best technology can do is to firewalled it. I think that’s the best solution government can offer.

Won’t matter. People find ways to break the rules, and there are laws being broken almost daily, even though people know what the laws are. The government would be wasting their time.