Direct Marketers Association Asks To Be Regulated

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."

Comments

Re:Illegal forged headers?

[rgmoore]

I have received notices that mail I tried to send couldn't be delivered. But in fact, the mail was not from me, and some spammer had spoofed the email address and pretended to be me.

The chances are that it wasn't a spammer doing that, or rather that it wasn't the result of a spammer doing so deliberately. Some of the more recent email viruses have adopted the strategy of forging from headers in their propagation letters. They pick two addresses from the victim's computer, one recipient and one forged sender. The theory seems to be that there's a decent chance that the two are likely enough to know each other that it will increase the chances of the letter being opened, while masking the identity of the infected machine. It seems as though some spammers have become infected, so there are lots of people receiving random messages apparently from people they've never heard of.

Re:The irony

[Dimensio]

When you are told by your employers to initiate a spam run, you should NEVER accept that assignment. The ethical and moral thing to do is determine just who in the company decided upon the spam run and speak to them regarding spamming and explain why it is a bad thing. If, after you explain the situation to them, they refuse to relent and inist upon going through with it, you should have them killed.

It really is for the best for society.

Re:And in further news

[Zeinfeld]

Not really. In the US cars are a known commodity. All you need to get the research, development, and manufacturing capability for is funding. Funding is, relatively, easy to come by in the US. You won't need to sell at Big 3 and Japanese volume to be wildly successful.

Libertopian cretins of the world unite! You have nothing to loose but your obsessive dogma.

Hate to burst your bubble here but the entire global car market has gone the same way as the US market so it is unlikely that US regulations are the issue. Further the US car market consolodated in the 1930s when there were no safety laws.

The cost of capital to develop new engines is immense. SAAB sold out to GM because they simply could not afford to design a new engine.

Even a company like Rolls Royce could not support itself as an independent company.