The Email Wars

But it is to a Canadian Company and they don’t care. I emplore you to read this article as this whole law is really messed up. We need to have one national law and not one for every state. It makes it too hard to control and is really (as you will read) a ploy to make someone else some money. On that note, Why should anti spammmers look to make money the same way spammers are? Ahhhh, America, what a Great country.

Critics say spam law failing to guard kids
E-mail registry: Created to shield children from adult ads, some now call it a money-making scheme

Dennis Jolley hasn’t been deluged by offensive e-mail pictures and solicitations. Nor has his 4-year-old son, who hasn’t quite figured out how to send or open an e-mail.
Still, several months ago, the Salt Lake City father signed up for Utah’s Child Protection Registry anyway - just to be sure no unwanted pornography ever slips through.

“If they want to produce porn, that’s their right. But I want to be able to say I don’t want it to come into my house unsolicited - by any method,” Jolley says.

Jolley is one of about 2,600 Utahns who have individually joined the state’s fledgling registry. Another 100,000 have been signed up by Webmasters - including those for 27 school districts - who control their e-mail domain addresses.

Utah’s registry is meant to protect children from adult-themed e-mails, including advertisements for cigars, wine clubs and porn. As often as once a month, 300 companies comply with the law’s requirement to pay a half-cent to check each e-mail on their solicitation list.

The brainchild of a couple of friends who persuaded lawmakers in Utah and Michigan to adopt legislation and then created a Park City-based business to run the filter, the registry has generated an estimated $68,000 for the company and $17,000 in state fees. It has led to one citation.

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