A Fight to Ban Cell Phone Spam Spam & E-Mail7/6/2000; 9:35:26 AM A fight to ban cell phone spam... before we can even manage to ban e-mail spam."Although members of the wireless industry say advertising in the wireless future is inevitable and will help subsidize cell-phone use, Representative Rush Holt (D-New Jersey) is currently drafting a bill similar to a law prohibiting unsolicited junk mail on fax machines."Also interesting from that article, an update on the e-mail Spam ban:

This isn't Holt's first campaign to combat spam. He was the lead co-sponsor of the "Can Spam Act," which would fine email spammers up to $50,000 for sending unsolicited junk mail illegally. Provisions of this bill made it to a more comprehensive measure authored by Representative Heather Wilson (R-New Mexico), the Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 1999. The bill, expected to pass the House of Representatives on Wednesday, mandates the accurate return address be posted on unsolicited commercial email and makes it illegal for spammers to continue sending unsolicited junk mail after they've been warned by irked recipients or Internet service providers.

Emphasis mine.