Whats this about an American law legalising spam?
2.3.2.1 The Murkowski Bill I’m guessing you’ve seen something like this in a lot of spam messages: Under Bill s. 1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th US Congress this letter cannot be considered spam as long as the sender includes contact information and a method of removal. This is a one time e-mail transmission. No request for removal is necessary. What happened was that a few years ago Senator Frank Murkowski (R-AK) championed a spam law that was widely panned by most anti-spam activists as being an effective green light to spamming. The bill, as it happened, died in Congress (i.e. the 105th US Congress ended before the bill could become law). That’s why in all these disclaimers, it’s called a “bill” – not a “law”. So no, there’s no American law legalising spam. Almost all of the spam that quotes this disclaimer doesn’t comply with the terms of the bill anyway. If you’re interested you could have a look at the text of this bill; technical reasons prevent me giving a direct link but go
