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FTC Defines Spam
Iphtashu Fitz writes "The FTC has just issued its final report on how it will define Spam with regards to the federal CAN-SPAM act. According to the FTC, bulk e-mail is commercial if it includes advertising and promotion or if the subject line or beginning of the message would be reasonably considered to be advertising or promotion. This is very similar to the proposed rules that were announced back in August. The modified rules also deal with the issues of transactional messages (an e-mail regarding an order that also includes advertising) and relationship-based e-mail (messages about product updates, etc)."
Main Entry: 1spam
Pronunciation: 'spam
Function: noun
Etymology: from a skit on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus in which chanting of the word Spam (trademark for a canned meat product) overrides the other dialogue
: unsolicited usually commercial e-mail sent to a large number of addresses
Wow, so it's spam if the subject line reads like an advertisment.
I guess I'm through sending my boss transaction reports with the subject line "ENLARGE YOUR PENIS!"
Aw, just as well, I'm sure she would have slapped me with a sexual harassment suit if I kept it up.
..these definitions are always positive!
HAHAHAHAHAHA I get it!!!!! You make joke on ENGLISH!!!!!!!!! Artikel say 'FTC make spam definition', but you twist secret words to make new message about canned foodgoods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am laughing at the joke with my face!!!!!! :) :) :)
With apologies to Justice Potter Stewart:
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced, but I know it when I see it... "
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I consider spam any advertisement that enters my email, regardless of all considerations.
Let's equate this to murder since people nowadays only understand harsh things.
1) I am killed for no apparent reason (duh)
2) I am killed by someone who does not me, nor I him
3) I am killed by someone who I might know, or might know me, however no relationship existed.
4) I am killed by someone from whom I am currently buying things.
5) I am killed by someone from whom I have told I might buy future products.
So as you can see, I'm still winding up dead. Now change that to "annoyed" if you so must.
At work we have a project on the table to develop a web-based tool to spam a lot of people, and to try to avoid getting blacklisted by hopping mail servers. Any advice on how to talk the business people out of doing this?
I reccommend a killing spree.
Please? We'll hide you once it's done, promise!
You can't take the sky from me...
Only if you're NOT the son of a former Nigerian dictator.