CAUCE, the Coalition against unsolicited commercial e-mail, is a volunteer entity that began as world-SPAM Act, a group gathered for discussion. They put all their efforts in getting legislation passed to help apprehend and punish spam.
CAUCE has no cash and no offices. Fully virtual organization exists on the Internet, newsgroups and discussion lists online. Donations are not accepted because the channel founders and members believe it would be necessary to have to respond to numerous lobbying regulations.
CAUCE is soliciting members, however. While the basis of the organization was launched in the United States - in San Francisco - there are chapters in other parts of the world, including Canada Cauca, Cauca India, CAUBE.Au, which covers New Zealand, Australia and all Pacific Rim countries Europe and EuroCAUCE. Channels can boast more than 20000 members in the U.S. alone, with every state represented. Even American Samoa and Guam have antispam proponents who have jumped on the train channels.
CAUCE uses its list of members and each member of individual information in a unique way. They give that list to legislators to promote the cause of anti-spam legislation. The purpose of this is to let these legislators know how many voters in his area are concerned about spam and the need for an anti-spam legislation.
To join you simply channels provide their full name and email address, mailing addresses, their congressional district, and choose a password.
If you do not know that Congress is in a district that you can determine that visiting http://www.house.gov/writerrep. In this case you are asked by their state and zip code. Not only this to say his district but also gives its name from the legislature, as well as a feedback form to write to her or him if they so wish.
CAUCE ha ido gaining national and international recognition, since the battle for legislation to halt, reduce and punish spammers. Already in 1998, Cauca went to Congress to boost the anti-spam legislation, which did go to the floor, but was never approved. The last attempt, overturned again, was a bill that would require labelling of spam.
This bill would have forced spammers sentenced to note in their messages, indicated in the subject line that he would tell people that the message they receive is a spammer convicted. The law did not pass, nor was supported by the channel. Cause and legislators both agree that the law would have been thorns, which lacked enforceable. They agreed that those who were already breaking the law by sending junk mail can not be complying with some new law that says he had to notify people who were spammers.
The Cauca website, http://www.cauce.org, lists its hall of shame. Here are sites that have been known to send or support, or at least not to block spam. At this writing there are only six sites listed.
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