On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:56:57 +0000, Dave Platt wrote:

In article ,
Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\" wrote:

You can't legalize something that had no prior restrictions because it
was _already_ legal.

There are those who feel that the CAN SPAM law both legitimizes and
legalizes spam, in two ways:

- It sets specific Federal boundaries on what sorts of spam are
illegal (and thus by implication states that spams which don't
cross those boundaries are legitimate), and

- It preempts most State laws which had stronger restrictions on
spamming, and therefore makes legal certain spams which were
previously forbidden by State law.

And this is the part that really ****es me off, because it is in direct
violation of Article 10:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively,
or to the people."

Thanks,
Rich