If you go back, I and many others have complained about the 'pay to
spam' rules currently in SpamAssassin.
Some of these, like linked in, are blatant violations of US federal CAN
Spam laws.
Last time I got a spam from linked in, they insisted: (the company that
certified them, and took money to let them spam), insisted:
A) that somehow _I_ was at fault (you must have signed up)
B) that it was my responsibility to unsubscribe (Sorry, you have to sign
up, and agree to their terms, which allow them to spam you, this was the
only way to unsubscribe)
Well, today, at least they have a link in their spam that lets you
unsubscribe without joining linked in. However, they still don't have a
full physical address of the sender in their emails.
This email was sent to an email address used for technical mailing lists
(I am on the development team for FreeBSD/) and, or harvested from a web
site that archives emails (again, either of these is a violation of
federal can spam laws)
Why bring this up? I want SA to disable all these pay to spam rules as
defaults.
I have brought this up with linked in, and the 'spam for hire' company
that sends these, and all I get is the runaround.
if this rule is truly CERTIFIED not to spam, then they had better review
us federal laws, and make this company conform.
<http://pastebin.com/K0r29v6F>
(even pastebin thought this was spam and made me type in chars to prove
I wasn't a robot/zombot)
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