FTC Adopts New Rule For Sexually Explicit Spam

enforcer999 writes "As you know, the CAN SPAM ACT preempted many state laws that were tougher on spammers. For instance, many of the laws that were enacted by states included a requirement that sexually explicit SPAM be labeled as such. The FTC, in charge of adopting rules, came up with a new rule that will require sexually explicit SPAM to be labeled as such. Hmm? I think the states were already trying to do this before the Federal government preempted them. Anyway, I wonder if it will work?"

Comments

Place your right hand...

[akaina]

... on this issue of Playboy. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you Hef?

Finally

[MrWim]

I'll be able to get the computer to select the spam I want to see from the spam I don't

Re:It needs to be a standard label for filters

[Jason Straight]

Come to think of it - I'd be happy if they passed a law that said they aren't allow to misspell :)

Hopefully

[X-Nc]

It's become so difficult to find the porn spam burried under all the rest. If this gets done it'll really help me in finding the only spam worth reading.

(Yes, I'm being faces... fecaci... feseecious... ah hell, you know what I mean)

Re:It needs to be a standard label for filters

[dipipanone]

Well that would've been a better idea. Just force spammers via the law to label all their spam in the subject line with a common word like "[UBE]" or "[ADULT]".

I've got a better idea yet. Force all the spammers to label all their spam [SPAM] and we're all set.

[SPAM] cooperation, can't be that hard.

[Allen Zadr]

Absolutely! Really it'll work. All we need to do is get all of these legitimate electronic marketing firms to cooperate with this plan.

Since they are legitimate electronic marketing firms, they will have no problem cooperating.

Anybody know the postal address of any of these legitimate electronic marketing firms so we can ask them nicely to cooperate?

...What do you mean you can't figure out what legitimate electronic marketing firm sent you that E-mail? Yeah, the one with the subject line of, "Bset P@R!N0 sevirice axldirlx". Yeah, just look at the header. Do a lookup for the IP address in the received line... See, it resolves to 'ftc.gov' - funny I didn't know the FTC was in the Email marketing business, Hmph - we'll just ask them to label their Emails...
Problem solved

What are you saying. Of course the FTC sent it, the E-mail headers wouldn't lie. That's been illegal since January 1, 2004. Surely, you don't expect me to believe that these legitimate electronic marketing firms are breaking the law!

Re:And in further news...

[prash_n_rao]

I think they yould prefer it if you e-mail your complaints to them. This is for your own convenience... no more waiting in long queues to complain: just drop an e-mail.

They also encourage mass petitions by e-mail. You write a small e-mail with the complaints, forward it to your friends with a cc to IFSS (or even just your favoirite spammer), ask your friends to do the same.

The more people you forward to, the faster IFSS will respond.

Oh, thank god

[kneecarrot]

They need to do something. My penis is getting so long I can hardly walk.

Re:It needs to be a standard label for filters

[smithmc]

I agree 100%. This would make it much easier to skip over all those annoying emails from friends and jump straight to the pr0n.