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FTC Tries to Can Sex Spam

Posted by michael on from the closing-the-barn-door dept.

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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  1. Re:Hurray For Sueing Spammers by JohnnyKlunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    yeah, but they're trying to can the only spam that I actually like!

  2. Easy filtering from here! by MikTheUser · · Score: 5, Funny

    '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!

    1. Re:Easy filtering from here! by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      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...

      WARN1N6: Thi5 M355^ge's con7en7 m1gh7 no7 b3 sui.ted for...

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  3. Images in the subject line? by bobbyjack · · Score: 5, Funny
    the FTC claims many of the e-mails revealed sexually explicit words or images in the subject line


    (my emphasis)

    Seriously, are their email clients that display images in the subject line?!
    1. Re:Images in the subject line? by stupidfoo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Seriously, are their email clients that display images in the subject line?!

      Somewhere, some PHB at Microsoft is thinking this would be great for Outlook 2005.

  4. (.)(.) Big and Buxom! by OECD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously, are their email clients that display images in the subject line?!

    Piece of cake, mate ;-)

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  5. Of course they are! by rackhamh · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. oh, so *that's* what "CAN-SPAM" meant by Mars+Saxman · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...