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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)."
Im glad our tax money is still being directed useless attempts as solving problems.
Why cant our government realize that being nice to China is not cutting it. Since most of the spam out on the internet is coming from China, we should be screaming at them instead of doing shit like defining what spam is.