Politicians may have exempted themselves but report as spam says otherwise. We are in a constant battle with local and state elected officials both as customers and senders who refuse to even try to follow best sending practices. And I’ve personally had rather self important officials tell me how it SHOULD be. Were it not so frustrating, those conversations would be comical.
One Illinois state rep asked for a reference for help getting his mailings sorted out, and after a week fired the reference because they told him the same thing I did. > On May 30, 2019, at 8:20 PM, Jay Hennigan via mailop <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 5/28/19 13:21, Brett Schenker via mailop wrote: >> Two real world examples would be elected officials to be contacted and some >> corporations to be contacted. The former absolutely has reasons to be bulk >> emailed, the latter possibly too. Both would be "published" email addresses. >> For your average person, probably not but it's not a hard 100% rule as >> stated. > > Elected officials publishing their addresses for constituents to contact them > aren't likely to get much in the way of bulk email from ESPs. Constituents > are going to write directly regarding a specific concern. > > Elected officials and those running for office scraping email addresses from > DMV records and those poor souls who don't understand the consequences of > putting an email address or phone number on a voter registration form WILL > use ESPs and robodialers[1] to spam their constituents back to the stone age. > > In many areas, DMV and voter registration forms do have a place for phone > number and email address. Permission for anyone other than DMV officers or > election officials respectively to use that address can never be reasonably > implied. M3AAWG sums it up as follows: "When a person gives a company, a > group, or an individual permission to market to him or her, that permission > is provided exclusively to the party in question." > > [1] Politicians conveniently exempted themselves from the provisions of the > TCPA. > > -- > Jay Hennigan - [email protected] > Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 > 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > [email protected] > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
