Not Again: Anti-Spam Bill Being Crafted in CA

A bill is working its way through the California legislature that supporters contend would strengthen its anti-spam laws and could go in to effect as early as this fall, the San Francisco Chronicle reported last week.

Third-year law student and operator of the Web site DanHatesSpam.com, Dan Balsam, co-wrote the bill and has been working on getting some version of it passed for two years, according to the Chronicle.

Balsam contends that the Can Spam Act has been ineffective because, among other things, it doesn