On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 6/9/2010 15:56, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Jun 9, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
On 6/9/10 6:27 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
Going back then to a previous question, do we want more/any regulation ?
Laws and regulation exist because people can't behave civilly and be expected to respect the rights/boundries/property others.
CAN-SPAM exists because the e-mail marketing business refused to self regulate and respect the wishes of consumers/administrators
Which is good, because it certainly eliminated most of the SPAM. -- NOT!
It is actually an outstanding example of something of something I spoke of here earlier.
Without any exception that I know of, regulations are written to protect the entrenched. CAN-SPAM was written to protect spammers, not to prevent anything important to them.
Actually, as much as it would make so much more sense if that were the case, it simply isn't true. CAN-SPAM was written to be a compromise that was supposed to allow consumers to opt out of receiving SPAM and prevent SPAMMERs from sending unwanted messages. Sadly, of course, it hasn't done either one. Owen
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