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SPAM: Has Sandbox.Com Violated Its Privacy Policy?

e4 asks: "Okay, I admit it. I'm a fan of fantasy football. I've been playing various forms for about a decade now. With the huge surge in online fantasy football leagues in recent years, some friends and I decided to give Sandbox a try. I read their Member Agreement and their Privacy Policy. I could see that Sandbox was built around marketing gimmicks, but they had opt-out check boxes for most of it, so I went ahead and signed up. I started getting junk mail from them almost immediately. I wrote several e-mails to various Sandbox addresses, politely complaining about the problem. Most of them were ignored. Eventually, I got a response that seemed to explain what happened. It turns out they have two different unsubscribe lists: one for Sandbox.Com and one for Sandbox.CNNsi.Com. I was 'inadvertently' added to the second one. So I unsubscribed from those too. More spam. More e-mails. More ignoring. Still more spam." With all of the new SPAM laws in place, what is the best method of getting those laws applied to the services that still haven't learned to play nice with unsolicited e-mail?

"What do I do now? They have clearly not lived up to the promises in their privacy policy, and they don't seem to care. Aside from filtering the spam and never visiting their site again, what other options are there? We hear a lot about anti-spam legislation, but has any of it actually seen the light of day yet?"

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