Direct Marketers Association Asks To Be Regulated

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Direct Marketers Association Asks To Be Regulated

Posted by CowboyNeal on Wednesday October 23, 2002 @04:09PM from the promising-to-play-nice dept.

alanjstr writes "Recognizing that with all the spam out there, the legitimate messages don't get through, the Direct Marketers Association (DMA) has decided that they will no longer oppose federal anti-spam legislation, but that forged headers should be illegal."

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And in further news by ArchieBunker · 2002-10-23 16:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Hell has just frozen over.

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1. Re:And in further news by llamaluvr · 2002-10-23 16:26 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  YAY! NO more spam. Well, ok. Less spam anyways.
  
  Because spammers always obey the law.
  
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2. Re:And in further news by michaelwb · 2002-10-24 00:42 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  DMA: "Oh, spank us!! Spank us!! We've been ever so naughty!"
  - Michael
Aaaaaaaahahahahaaaaaa! by flacco · 2002-10-23 16:12 · Score: 4, Funny

The first step is admitting you have a problem, and that you are powerless to face it by yourself.
SOMEONE PLEASE STOP ME BEFORE I SPAM AGAIN!

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1. Re:Aaaaaaaahahahahaaaaaa! by pyros · 2002-10-23 16:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Advertisaholics Anonymous, of course.
Something strange about the "pig" topic icon by Ilan+Volow · 2002-10-23 16:16 · Score: 5, Funny

The story is about the Direct Marketers Association asking to be regulated by the government, yet the topic icon doesn't have wings.

Strange...

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Re:still doesnt solve much by uptownguy · 2002-10-23 16:18 · Score: 3, Funny

...beware of the guy reeking of oily rags and hiding a blowtorch behind his back offering to help put out the fire...

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Great! by Shinsei · 2002-10-23 16:21 · Score: 2, Funny

... now I can get legal spam instead of just the regular... :D

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Setup? by UniverseIsADoughnut · 2002-10-23 16:33 · Score: 2, Funny

This has to be a setup or a trick or something.

But then again I see MS gave Linus a beautiful giant wooden penquin this morning. Things are looking up
To DMA: You can send me more spam... by UpLateDrinkingCoffee · 2002-10-23 16:34 · Score: 5, Funny

If you just quit calling me at 8:01 am on Saturday morning telling me that I've been selected to receive a free three day trip to the Bahamas. You see, I like to sleep in so if I've really won a trip, send someone in person to wake me up.
...Like a supermodel.
...With a 6 pack of Keystone beer.
1. Re:To DMA: You can send me more spam... by kscd · 2002-10-23 21:02 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  funny story about these cats...I got a call the other day, at about 8 am on a saturday morning.
  
  He said, my name is Jack from Award Services, congrats, you won a trip.
  
  I said: please remove me from your list.
  
  He said: but I don't think you know that you just won a trip.
  
  I said: leave me alone.
  
  He said: but you don't understand, this is free.
  
  I said: I understand. I said leave me alone. Are you calling me stupid?
  
  He said: No, you just don't understand...
  
  M: You think I'm stupid.
  H:No...
  
  M: OK, let me ask you a question, how did I win?
  
  H: We randomly picked you from a DB of phone #'s.
  
  M: Well, that's the DB I want you to take my name off.
  
  H: You need to understand...
  
  M: OK, I didn't want to be rude, but you need to understand that Award Services sounds like a BS company.
  
  H: (all defensive) Oh yeah, what's the name of your company?
  
  M: I'm a lawyer in private practice
  
  H: (click)
  
  It was beautiful...
So basically... by Dimensio · 2002-10-23 16:49 · Score: 5, Funny

The DMA is open to the idea of the government saying that some forms of theft of service by conversion and trespass to chattel is unaccaptable, so long as the theft of service, theft by conversion and trespass to chattel that their members want to commit is still legal.

Did I get that right?

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Re:dont compare DMA with NRA by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-23 16:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Those of us who don't like the NRA are protecting our right not to be shot.

I totally agree with you. Not only should dissolve the NRA, but then afterwards we should pass a law that makes killing people illegal.
Re:Illegal forged headers? by Jester99 · 2002-10-23 17:28 · Score: 5, Funny

If 99.99% of people ignore the email... and 0.02% are interested in the product, then they can profit by sending out TONS of email.

Indeed. Such a violation of the conservation of mass, which occurs when 100.01% of people are accounted for, causes galactic rips in the very fabric of space-time, causing TORRENTS of cosmic ether -- sometimes called "UCE" because of it's nebulous Unidentified Cosmic Ether nature -- to be unleashed on mail servers everywhere!

The lesson learned: If you ever grow interested in a spam-marketted product, think of the world! Think of the children!
Re:still doesnt solve much by namespan · 2002-10-23 17:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe some of these people have nice cars or swimming pools. If so, I'd like to make those part of my economic model.

You can't drive or swim in them, but surely they'd have no objection to you placing a flyer in/on them. You and a couple of hundred friends...

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Re:opt in by reference by io333 · 2002-10-23 18:10 · Score: 5, Funny

4. bestrate loan company makes a "paternship" with joe's porn palace and before you know it your p*nis is being enlarged!

You too?! I've been so embarassed. I've been buying new pants every week but the bulge is getting too large to hide. Today on the bus ride home this little old grandmother kept *looking* at me in *that way*. I'm so freaked out.
Re:still doesnt solve much by bakes · 2002-10-23 19:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Governments exist to protect the people, not to forward corporate interests

Ahhh, the naeivity of youth...

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