| reply to mr2nut
Re: Crackdown is what we need "So in other words, they've found a neat loophole of saying that somehow they got your email address and/or permission legally - and it's your word against their's. How can you be so sure that your bank didn't sell you out? Or that latest X-Box contest you entered didn't get you into this? So spammers can pretty much say they got it from some source and get away with it."
Simple as this - if you didn't ask for it, it's spam. It may or may not be "legal" but it's almost certainly against the AUP of the ISP they used to send it. Complain to the ISP and the ISP's upstream, if necessary. My email address is mine - just telling it to someone else doesn't make it theirs to pass on. This is part of the DMA (direct marketing assn.) plan to try to force-feed advertising to you 24/7. Opt-out is BS, and it'll never work. You opt out of my breast/penis/wallet enlargement offers today? Fine. Tomorrow, the company name changes & you get to opt out again. |
