WASHINGTON-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > > WASHINGTON-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 30 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [WASHINGTON-L] Spam Legislation - [Shirley <kworth@pacifier.com>] > #2 [WASHINGTON-L] 1900 census Lynden, [DKEL3159@aol.com] > #3 [WASHINGTON-L] HART [DLambb@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from WASHINGTON-D, send a message to > > WASHINGTON-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [WASHINGTON-L] Spam Legislation - State of Washington > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:17:50 -0800 > From: Shirley <kworth@pacifier.com> > To: WASHINGTON-L@rootsweb.com > > The Daily News, Longview, Wash., 1-26-99 > "Spam Recipients May Soon Have More Legal Recourse" > > Washington residents tired of receiving junk email - "spam in computer lingo - > soon may have more legal recourse against those who send the annoying messages > promoting get-rich-quick schemes, pornography and the like. > A bill filed in the House would expand the scope of a year old law, giving > Internet service providers - which facilitate the delivery of email - the power > to claim higher damages against spammers. It also would allow computer users to > register electronic mail addresses in a state funded database that would make > them out of bounds to would-be spammers. > "We continue to lead the nation in moving to curtail the abuses," said Rep. > Roger Bush, a Spanaway Republican and fifth grade teacher who sponsored the > anti-spam law. "People are being hurt, businesses are being hurt. It's very > bipartisan." > The House Technology Telecommunications and Energy Committee was scheduled to > take public testimony on the issue at a hearing today. > Spam fell between the legislative cross hairs last year with the passage of a > law banning mass mailers from disguising advertisements by putting misleading > information in the header and subject line of emails, or by using another > company's Internet name without permission. > House Bill 1037 would plug some of the holes in that law at the recommendation > of a task force that studied the issues last year, Bush said. > It would require senders of commercial emails to include their names, addresses > and telephone numbers in the body of the messages. Internet service providers > could sue spammers who violate service provider policies on junk email and > collect as much as $25,000 a day in fines, up from $1,000 currently. And > consumers could go after spammers for damages of $500. > Washington residents wishing to avoid junk email would be able to register > their email addresses in a state funded database that would serve as notice to > potential mass emails that registrants do not want to be spammed. > Such a registry already exists, but it's provided voluntarily by the Washington > Association of Internet Service Providers, or WAISP. Internet providers also > can register, on behalf of themselves and their customers. > ____________________ > > For text of the bill and its history, go to > http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/bills.htm Click on House Bill Information, then > 1025-1049, then 1037 (the bill number) > > Shirley > kworth@pacifier.com ICQ: 18990096 Yahoo Pager: Shirley_K77 > Homespun~Country Kitchen: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~homespun/index.htm > Disaster Relay: > http://www.angelfire.com/ks/windshipgenhelp/ers.html > Native American items: > http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Screen/7830 > * Registered member of WAISP anti-spam efforts * > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [WASHINGTON-L] 1900 census Lynden, WA > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:18:13 EST > From: DKEL3159@aol.com > To: WASHINGTON-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi Rooters, > Is there anyone who would be able to lookup a John D. Lannin in Lynden, WA > on the 1900 census. > I would really appreciate it! PLEASE! : ^ ) > > Debbie Kelsch > Muskegon County, MI > > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [WASHINGTON-L] HART > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:31:57 EST > From: DLambb@aol.com > To: WASHINGTON-L@rootsweb.com > > Any one researching the HART line? > My husbands 4 th gr. grandfather was John William HART b. 4- 24- 1849 in ILL. > Married Ada Jane NEECE. By 1882 they had settled in Washington. > John HART is buried at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery, in Tacoma. > Their son Culver Newton HART ( 3 rd gr, g..) Married Ina SCHULLENBURGER. > Believe he spent his live in the state of Washington. > > Any help appreciated, Sharon > > PAGE, LANCASTER, WILLIAMS, SHAFER, SENECHALE, FARR, LAMB, LOLLIE, > ADAMS. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ I am looking for the names of: Levina DYER/Burville MILLER of IL, WI & WA; Joseph & Philena VANDYKE of PA, WI & WA; Martha Ellen VANDYKE/Charles Marion MILLER of WI, IL & WA; Eunice BREEDEN/Ira Freeman MILLER of WI & WA. Dates of birth range from 1811 - 1926. Thank you in advance for any help. Maggie DYER, VANDYKE, BREEDEN, MILLER