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FTC Tries to Can Sex Spam
F_SMASH writes "The United States' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged a group of companies and individuals with failing to include required warnings on 'sex' related spam e-mail."
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Sex in a can? I think I've seen something like this before.. err--
Never mind.
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
yeah, but they're trying to can the only spam that I actually like!
'Cause now we can just set our spam filters to look out for something like "WARNING: This message's content might not be suited for..." right in the subject!
(my emphasis)
Seriously, are their email clients that display images in the subject line?!
Great, the FTC is stopping the only spam I looked forward to. Now the only thing I have to live for are those v14.gr4 emails. I'm glad their m4d l33t sp34k sk1llz c4n 5t1ll d3f34t my 5p4m f1lt3r.
Seriously, are their email clients that display images in the subject line?!
Piece of cake, mate ;-)
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
US absolutely can't do a thing. It's the same old issue of a spammer in Antartica 1000 miles away across the world, pressing "send, send, send".
I love how a million American parents are writing a million complaint letters to Clearchannel etc for flashing 1 second of Janet Jackson's breast. Here they are at the mercy of the porn spammers, and can't do a thing.
Of course the government is cracking down on sex spam. Just imagine...
You're a middle-aged guy stuck in a bureacratic position. You spend your days debating horribly dreary points of order and generally struggling to effect any meaningful change...
Then somebody comes up to you and says, "Hey [your name], wanna drop what you're doing and spend a few weeks/months looking at porn?"
Yeah, tough decision there.
Now how am I supposed to meet Christine, Joy, or all the other girls who desperatly seek my company?!
Just a boy doing unproffesional IT work that's way above his head.
Those should absolutely be banned! :)
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
One of the companies, Global Net Ventures, is based in the UK. How is the US FTC going to charge them?
My guess is send them a bill with a link to PayPal.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
Oh - wait - "tries to can sex spam"... suddenly the name of that law makes more sense. I had been reading "can spam" as, "you can spam and nobody can sue you as long as you follow these rules"; it never occured to me that they might have intended "can" to be a verb. I was really surprised that Congress was being so straightforward about their intentions with that law, given that cutesy acronyms for law names are usually feel-good propaganda that mean something completely opposite of whatever the law actually does. I guess they outsmarted themselves with that acronym, since it works in both directions...
Either +1 insightful, or +1 funny. (actually it's depressingly RIGHT).