while (opt-out && only email) cry (); (Score 2)

As we all agree that it will be hard to enforce a ban on spam, i see some problems with this.

1. If there really is a public opt-out list available on the list, it helps spamers getting email addresses.
2. Every law that can hardly be enforced potentially leads to ambiguity. Investigations will not be done for every spam mail, instead investigations will start with unpleasant people. Thus for a crime done by thousands of people only a small group (e.g. activists who spam a political essay) will be imprisoned.
3. It is ridiculous to assume that the goal of politics is stopping spam. I still get about 2kg (4.4 pounds) of snail-mail spam a week. It would be easy to enforce a ban on it, and it could save me a lot more time compared to saving 1 second dedicated to deleting an email.
   I suggest 2 other explainations:
   • They just want to show that they care for the "internet generation".
   • They try get into regulating the internet, getting a long list of potential internet-delinquents.

I think people are so much concerned about spam, because they feel watched. They get email from a website, that they wanted to deny having accessed.