Recently, I've been receiving commercial messages with a header of To: (recipient list supressed). I assume compilers of email addresses (IAF or others) is by-passing the SPAM filters by distibuting direct. Inevitably email addresses are going to become pretty much like post office box addresses or telephone numbers as far as unsolicited mail is concerned. It would make sense to me for us to lobby for an email version of the Telephone Consumers Protecion Act that *requires* telemarketers to maintain a nocall policy and nocall lists and imposes a $500 civil penalty (welcome to small claims court) for EACH violation. All a consumer has to do is request that a telemarketer put their phone number on the nocall list, and the penalty applies to all subsequent calls (and folks HAVE been collecting). The same thing could work with email although I'd ask the legislature to make the penalty apply to ANY solicitation with a bogus return email address. Imagine having a few thousand recpienets file claims with small claims courts in every juristiction in the country; imagine offering the local sheriff all or most of the award for going out and collecting it ;-) /s Murphy A. Sewall <[log in to unmask]> (860) 486-2489 voice Professor of Marketing (860) 456-7725 fax http://mktg.sba.uconn.edu/MKT/Faculty/Sewall.html