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Home 25 Dec 2008 Anonymous speech doesn't require forgery Email In September the long strange Jeremy Jaynes spam case took its most recent twist when the Virginia Supreme Court reversed its previous decision and threw out the state's anti-spam law on First Amendment grounds. The state is currently preparing one final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, and interested parties are preparing their briefs. I recently reread the decision, and was struck that the court's analysis depends on a severe misunderstanding of the way that e-mail works. See more ... posted at: 17:45 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/polianon.trackback

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