Comments:

General Comment: SPAM is the result of several individuals around the world whom have made it their job to harvest emails addresses and proliferate product information for a fee. Any anti-SPAM legislature needs to be directed at those individuals who see fit to harvest user email addresses without express or written permission. Each user who pays for his or her internet access has a right to control who receives their email address. On the same point however, for those people who utilize their email address as a public mode of communication and disseminate their email address to a public or private forum (IE a website, newsgroup, chat room, message board, yellow pages, business card, registry, etc) they then forfeit their rights on who can or can not receive email. If the alleged SPAMMER can show how the email address was gathered and that process is not illegal then the email is a valid communication. I do not feel the general concept of SPAM requires government regulation. Network security, Operating system security and business practices when it pertains to Internet use require oversight and some regulation. General users need the ability to vent frustrations to their service providers and then the service providers will require a regulatory authority to submit a valid complaint too. For any business that is found in violation of basic Internet laws should have their services remanded (ISP) and fines levied. If a business is shutdown and fined for a set time period it should not take long to correct this inappropriate behavior