US bids to ban spam Spam & E-Mail6/15/2000; 8:43:56 AM "If passed, the bill would require each spam to have a genuine and valid reply, instead of the usual gutless anonymous rubbish currently invading inboxes. It would also require that all junk email be labelled as spam so that Net users would know exactly what they were dealing with beforehand."Cross your fingers.I think this is the ideal solution. *Banning* spam probably is a violation of First Amendment rights. Requiring people to clearly label it is not, anymore then requiring that demonstrations be peaceful and not block people from conducting business. However, it should be limited to commericial e-mail only. Requiring other sorts of labeling based on personal ground is asking for abuse. (I leave it as an exercise to the reader to come up with historical precedents where forced labelling was abused.)