On Jan 29, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
On January 29, 2007 at 13:48 dotis at mail-abuse.org (Douglas Otis) wrote:
The US Federal government allows bulk sending of unsolicited email.
To be precise the "US Federal government" allows nothing specifically in
this realm. There are activities which are expressly or by implication of
law illegal or subject to regulatory or civil limitations.
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|CAN-SPAM Act of 2003:
|SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
|(16) SENDER-
| (A) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in subparagraph (B),
| the term `sender', when used with respect to a commercial
| electronic mail message, means a person who initiates
| such a message and whose product, service, or Internet
| web site is advertised or promoted by the message.
|
| (B) SEPARATE LINES OF BUSINESS OR DIVISIONS- If an entity
| operates through separate lines of business or divisions
| and holds itself out to the recipient throughout the
| message as that particular line of business or division
| rather than as the entity of which such line of business
| or division is a part, then the line of business or the
| division shall be treated as the sender of such message
| for purposes of this Act.
|...
| (5) INCLUSION OF IDENTIFIER, OPT-OUT, AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS
| IN COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL- (A) It is unlawful for any
| person to initiate the transmission of any commercial
| electronic mail message to a protected computer _unless_
| the message provides--
| (i) clear and conspicuous identification that the message
| is an advertisement or solicitation;
| (ii) clear and conspicuous notice of the opportunity under
| paragraph (3) to decline to receive further commercial
| electronic mail messages from the sender; and
| (iii) a valid physical postal address of the sender.
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