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"...overrides many state laws, and imposes an "opt out" standard instead of a more stringent "opt in" requirement..."
"If the measure becomes law, certain forms of spam will be officially legalized. The final bill says spammers may send as many "commercial electronic mail messages" as they like--as long as the messages are obviously advertisements with a valid U.S. postal address or P.O. box and an unsubscribe link at the bottom."
Good lord what a piece of crap.
We've been talking about it in this thread
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The federal government had to do something and thanks to our constitution, there isn't much more they can do than what they did in that law. Anything else would have been eventully overturned due to free speech. Of course, I don't think the founding fathers had advertising in mind when they created that, but *sigh* advertising is protected.
The law also protects the innocent business minority. Unfortunaty, a larger portion of the email community will take advantage of the opt-out thing but imagine if the law was the other way around and some moron who forgot he signed up went after you. You can very easily prove that you provide a clear way to opt-out, but its a lot harder to prove that the person opted-in.
The new law sure beats the California one!
My own spam filter has not caught one single spammail that was in my own language or from a domain in my own country. They are all in English. More than 90% of the domains in my blacklist are .com. (I do not doubt that some of those email addresses are spoofed). I have given up the idea of trying to track and report any of the spammers. I just bounce and delete the spam.
Does bouncing spam with fake bounces actually work? You'd think the spammers would have figured out ways to detect that by now (?)
