Jehu
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MA | Read the Document, not the editorial
While the editorial makes it sound like the end of the world, if you actually read the legal document, it's quite clear that this ACT is going help the spam-receiver quite a bit!
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pnh102
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| said by Jehu  :
it's quite clear that this ACT is going help the spam-receiver quite a bit!
LOL. You're way too optimistic  This bill was passed by the same Congress that gave us a Do-Not-Call list that specifically allows them to call us. I think this act will be equally useless.
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Help in what way??
The fines apply to misleading subject lines, pornography, and anonymous spamming, little of which is done by the major players anyway.
Tougher and actually effective state laws that would have helped are now defunct. Opt-out is nice, but companies like Yahoo already allowed you to do that, and it doesn't affect some bulk spam shop in the Phillipines one bit. You've now got millions of companies who are going to spam you, and you've got to opt-out from every single one of them; until they try to follow up that problem with the do-not-spam registry, which will be sold and harvested giving less ethical spammers a new list to attack.
Illegal spammers continue to spam, and the amount of legit mailer output will double. That helps you? |
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Jehu
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MA | Things have to seemingly get worse before they get better. I don't want to chum the waters.... just suggesting that people read the actual legislation before condemning it as some black-souled swindle.
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Plasticman
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said by pnh102 :
said by Jehu :
it's quite clear that this ACT is going help the spam-receiver quite a bit!
LOL. You're way too optimistic This bill was passed by the same Congress that gave us a Do-Not-Call list that specifically allows them to call us. I think this act will be equally useless.
From what I understand of this, is that we are going to get spammed very hevily. It is going to strain everybody's BW and we will have to spend alot of extra time having to op out of things that we did not op in to in the first place. You can bet that those idiots in congress don't have to deal with spam. I say we op all those loosers in to tons of spam emails and let them deal with trying to op out of them
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