[thelist] Can Spam Act of 2003
Ron
ronr at linuxdude.com
Fri Jul 19 15:31:44 CDT 2013
The Can Spam Act just gives them the Govt authority to prosecute, but
they still have to catch 'em. That's hard to do since they can use
millions of compromised machines and the owners have no idea their
sending out spam. The email system itself would have to be overhauled to
provide better mechanisms to keep it out and that would be complicated
and expensive. Email postage would work but there's no central authority
to implement it. We're probably stuck with spam.
~
On 07/19/2013 03:40 PM, Bob Meetin wrote:
> For years I've been operating under the belief that spam is
> unsolicited (commercial) email and I thought the Can Spam Act of 2003
> interpreted it this way.
>
> In my mind, all that proposal crap that you didn't sign up for that
> finds its way into your inbox is, was or should be in violation of the
> Can Spam Act.
>
> I got a little curious earlier today and as I read deeper I see that
> it doesn't state that they may not infiltrate your inbox, only that
> they must comply with various, hard to enforce, rules which include
> providing an easy opt-out mechanism.
>
> Feedback? Interpretation?
>
> -Bob
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