Greenfrog
I Know How To Take Care Of Bugs
join:2002-01-06
Meriden, CT
| reply to richb01803
Re: Watch these guys carefully!
For more on the DMA (Direct marketing associaion) approach to Opt-Out see this: »www.mail-abuse.org/anti-dma.html It stinks to high-heaven.
I'm glad the FTC is talking about a crackdown on this stuff. I've just finished retiring my @Home account due to the bankruptcy. The side benefit will be all the spam that disappears with it. In the end I was getting 25 to 30 spam messages for every legitimate email from somebody I care about. Think about what your postal mailbox would look like if the mail was "free" for the sender. My new address (under my own domain name) is getting published NOWHERE.
Advertising emails should be strictly opt-in to a verified address. I say, "I want your offers at me@mydomain.com" They send a verification email to that address with a unique code I have to mail back or punch into a website to validate the request. If I want off, I should just have to send an email from that address with REMOVE as the subject.
What do I think the penalties for spamming should be? Sorry, the AUP for this service prevents me from answering that question, and it's unconstitutional anyway.
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