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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. 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!

  2. 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.

  3. (.)(.) 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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  4. 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.