At this time there is no federal legislation either supporting or prohibiting the sending of unsolicited e-mail messages. However, you may have noticed that some spam includes the following language (or something similar): This message complies with the proposed United States Federal requirements for commercial e-mail. For additional information see: . Current information on the status, text, and summary of Title 3 of S. 1618 and H.R. 3888, its companion bill, can be found by using Thomas, the legislative information system run by the Library of Congress. Although this all sounds rather intimidating, it is also misleading since it implies that the spammer has acted within federal law in sending you their message. The bill to which these spammers refer (commonly called the “Murkowski bill”) would have legalized the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail provided certain requirements were met. However, although this
