Do you recognize this blurb, commonly used by email spammers?

“This message is sent in compliance with the new email bill S. 1618.

Section 301, Paragraph (a) (2) (C) of S. 1618 states that further

transmissions to you by the sender of this email may be stopped at

no cost to you by sending a reply to this email address with the

word ‘remove’ in the subject line.”

This quotation refers to an amendment that Sens. Frank Murkowski and

Bob Torricelli added to S. 1618, a bill whose primary purpose was to

prohibit slamming, the practice of fraudulently changing a customer’s

long-distance provider. But guess what: the bill never became a law.