President Bush signed legislation last Thursday that disallows the posting or e-mailing of messages intended to annoy people without having included your true identity.  The law, Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, contained this as a rider.  The relevant portion of the law is as follows:
Clinton Fein, owner of Annoy.com [1] which allows people to send anonymous annoying messages, reported to CNET that "I'm certainly not going to close the site down. I would fight it on First Amendment grounds." Previous Supreme Court precedent does allow for anonymous, written annoyance.
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Annoying someone online becomes federal crime