that got condensed down to 15 seconds of a 30 second story.
And television is not a medium noted for deep exposition of complex topics.
I did take the time to actually read the text of the law before the interview.
http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/108s877.html
And as most laws do it attempts to balance multiple competing interests.
If it's enforced as written it will be useful in prosecuting people sending
pornographic and pharmaceutical spam that fakes headers.
It does provide guidelines for legitimate email marketing. (you can't fake headers, you can't conceal the sender, you must provide a functional opt-out mechanism and you can't sell your opt-out list.)
It's not perfect, no law is. But it does show that they are aware of the problem, and it does contain language that requires the government to measure and monitor and review the law in two years.
And of course it does have it's silly bits. The Do-Not-Email list modeled on the Do-Not-Call list is a bad idea.
Unless it's implemented as a service where Joe Marketeer submits his list
and gets back a list with the Do Not Email entries removed...and a cryptographic key
to insert in the headers to PROVE that he consulted the list...
On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Bob Crandell wrote:
Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:--You are being too kind.
T. Joseph Carter wrote:
No, actually, he was talking about the anti-spam law and how it's a
beginning and all. I caught most of the segment at 5pm on channel 16 here
in Eugene (3 on cable). I am watching for a repeat of the segment in
their future newscasts today to see if I can catch the first 10-15 seconds
of it. If I can get it, I'll try to capture it off the TiVo and bring it
to a clinic or something.
I thought YOU-CAN-SPAM was a net loss, specifically legalizing broad classes of spam and overriding stricter state laws.
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