A few names come to mind, though I just ignore it all

I have been told numerous times, that I could get in trouble if I did certain things to "annoy" or "offend" people. The last time wound up in court. I won of course. America is still America. Next time, try posting longer lines or use TinyURL.com, like this

I just got back to Spain for another month, after Christmas in the States. The jet lag is awful. Don't anyone post anything to annoy me. I mean it.

Earle

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The writer of that article wants to imply that the honest sending of a message that someone might be able to claim is offensive is a misguided piece of liberal demoncratic commie cr^p.

That the law is opposed by the ACLU is reason enough to support the legislation.

The intent is, in my understanding is to make it a crime to hide the identity of a person, or evade law enforcement by a person ALREADY COMMITTING A CRIME.

You might see the similarity in this law and existing statutes in most states concerning evading apprehension by the police by criminal suspects (as shown nightly on COPS and similar TV shows.)

What is its real expected use? Not to go after honest but misguided citizens but after criminals. In recent years there have been court cases where criminals claimed that they committed no e-crime in a given state because their computer or server was in another state or country.

I personally hope they go after spammers who almost invariably use false or misleading e-addresses in the propagation of their harassing and annoying messages. Atop that force me to pay for this harassment as I pay for e-mail access and my fees include the costs of accepting, storing, and relaying these messages.

Is it possible, as wackos and shysters will expound, that this law may eventually be turned toward an honest citizen by a corrupt political hack? Certainly!, but the demented politicos would have to convince 12 citizens that your message was part of a criminal plot.

The CNET writer claims a woman fired for alleged sexual harassment has the right to make unsubstantiated, unproven, scandalous, and libelous claims on an international forum behind a cloak of secrecy. If this same woman was to print flyers with these same unproven claims and post them in the neighborhood of the boss she might well end up in jail herself.

I hope someone else finds this article offensive, annoying and harassing. I'd report him but I suspect that is a valid CNET e-address.

PS: to reach me at the listed e-address just remove the SPAM