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title: Go Virginia!
date: 2003-04-29
tags: ["Politics"]
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Something good to come out of Richmond:

> Governor Mark R. Warner today ceremonially signed two bills to raise the penalty to a felony for high volume unsolicited bulk e-mail, known as "spam."  The new anti-spam provisions of the Virginia Computer Crimes Act make it the toughest such law in the United States

[Full Press Release](http://www.governor.state.va.us/Press_Policy/Releases/2003/Apr03/0429b.htm)