US anti-spam law proposed

US lawmakers who sponsored legislation last congressional session aimed at giving consumers and ISPs more power to fight unwanted e-mail are reintroducing their bill. The original measure passed the US House, 427 to 1, but was too late for a Senate vote. This year, the bill is expected to easily pass both houses and significantly change the spam business.

The law would make it a crime to put inaccurate return addresses on unsolicited commercial e-mail and requires that the senders accurately label messages. The bill would allow ISPs to charge spammers $500 per message after they have been requested not to send junk e-mail

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