An Ohio law approved in August 2002 (effective November 2002) requires unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to contain the sender's name, address, and e-mail address, along with opt-out instructions, and requires senders to honor out-out requests; these requirements do not apply to messages sent based upon a direct referral from another person. It is illegal to forge the sender's address or other routing information in commercial e-mail messages. The law also enables a provider to sue a sender of commercial e-mail for violating the provider's policies if:

• the sender had actual notice of such policies, or
• the policies were posted on the provider's web site and were communicated electronically to the sender's computer.

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