Re: [Asrg] FTC tells us what is SPAM

[William Leibzon <william at completewhois.com>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, John Levine wrote:

> > FTC Issues Final Rule Defining What Constitutes a "Commercial Electronic
> > Mail Message"
> >
> >  Notice Includes Criteria For Determining the "Primary Purpose" of an
> >  E-Mail Message
>
> This has vanishingly little to do with defining what spam is.  They're
> defining what messages are subject to the CAN SPAM act, which
> regulates all commercial e-mail, solicited and unsolicited.
>
> I don't think much of the rules that CAN SPAM defines, but don't shoot
> the messenger.  The Congress directed the FTC to regulate some kinds
> of email, and the FTC is clarifying what mail that is.

I agree. I've very little faith in the "You can spam all you want" act by 
congress. It seems to have allowed large spammers to tell ISPs that they 
are not doing anything illegal because they are CAN-SPAM compliant (which 
might or might not be true, but verifying takes long time) and if ISPs do 
threated a disconnect then they begin to use lawyers to keep them up longer.

Nevertheless that Congress clarified what consititutes a COMMERCIAL EMAIL
is very important because that directly related to UCE type of spam and
commercial part is very often what makes a difference if deciding how to
react to bulk sender on your net.

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William Leibzon
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