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Direct Marketers Association Asks To Be Regulated

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. And in further news by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell has just frozen over.

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  2. Aaaaaaaahahahahaaaaaa! by flacco · · 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 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Advertisaholics Anonymous, of course.

  3. Something strange about the "pig" topic icon by Ilan+Volow · · 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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  4. To DMA: You can send me more spam... by UpLateDrinkingCoffee · · 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.

  5. So basically... by Dimensio · · 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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  6. Re:Illegal forged headers? by Jester99 · · 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!

  7. Re:still doesnt solve much by namespan · · 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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  8. Re:opt in by reference by io333 · · 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.

  9. Re:still doesnt solve much by bakes · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Ahhh, the naeivity of youth...

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