It's about time...it will interesting to see if this works.

Curtis

==== 2. Hot Off the Press ====
  by Mark Joseph Edwards, [email protected]

California Cracks Down Hard on Spammers
  California Governor Gray Davis signed legislation that prohibits
advertisers from sending unsolicited email and said the law contains no
loopholes that can be used to thwart it. According to reports at eWeek
and internet.com, the law targets the companies that send unsolicited
advertisements as well as the companies whose products are advertised in
such email. Violators would include those entities who send mail from
California, to California, or through servers in California.
  Users who break the new civil law face fines of up to $1000 per email
message and $1 million per incident. Users would have to opt in to any
mailings unless the receiver had engaged in business transactions with
an advertising company in the past. In the latter case, the company
would need to provide a means for the recipient to opt out of future
mailings.