This is why I’m not a lawyer..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I was asked to “consult” with our VP of Legislative Affairs this afternoon in reference to an anti-spam bill. She showed me the current state law, the proposed state law and the latest Federal CAN-Spam Act. All 3 have a different definition of what an “access provider” is. Being an access provider gives you the right to sue people who don’t follow the rules. It’s going to take an army of lawyers and lobbyists to agree on what the wording should be in the new state law, and make sure it complies with the framework set out by the federal statute. It makes my head ache to just think about those conversations!

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • Documentation

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I promised to keep you all updated on the great documentation project of 2005. I’ve decided to break the documentation of job duties into time periods. There’s a separate list of everything that needs to be done on a daily basis, weekly or bi-weekly basis, monthly basis yearly basis and, finally, a list of on-going…

  • More with the nastiness

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    As if to prove that it’s not just women being publicly slammed that gets my dander up, I agree with Roger’s comment here. So you dropped Scoble’s feed from your subscriptions. I do that all the time. Heck I drop people from the blogroll, or just quit reading blogs all the time because I’m not…

  • Happy Sys- Admin day

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’m obviously not in the office so no one is going to “appreciate” me, you know like they even notice me outside of when something needs fixed. *L* Listening to Nelson Minar talk about the magic behing Google. It’s pretty interesting. I’m sure the more developer-type folks here have more to say about it. Follow…

  • Technical Difficulties

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’ve been told by Readyhosting’s Tech Support people that the current problems with the site will probably continue through the weekend. They are having a router issue, and the spare part they need to fix their router issue won’t be in until then. So this weekend you can expect random script errors and general unresponsiveness…

  • How not to make a good impression

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    We’re testing a new bit of software at work, because we really haven’t been happy with our current vendor’s level of support. Given the fact that we told the salesperson of this new vendor that was why we were looking at their product, wouldn’t you make extra-double sure that when you sent us download instructions…

  • Excuse me…

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Pardon the interruption in normal blogging patterns. I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time this afternoon losing an argument with a tape drive. I’m in the right on this argument, but I’m afraid it’s circular logic pattern has left us both stuck with quite the conundrum. (If a tape drive doesn’t detect a tape…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)