If you have to "opt-in" somewhere, doesn't that make it no longer "unsolicited"? (not that that's a bad thing)
Dude, that's exactly what I was saying!
And if the checkbox says something like "we may share this information with trusted companies" then don't check the damn thing!
But I will miss getting my degree from an American University, being offered cheaper-than-drug-store medicine, and even finding out how I just won $BIGNUM on an imaginary lottery.
There is a difference between a regular opt-in news letter and a random spattering of e-mail or phone calls offering services you didn't ask for, even if you agreed to share your information. Does that make sense?
In a way, but it also still stands that I didn't opt in for the mail splattering - regardless of whether I actually said "yes" to the newsletter - so the mail splattering is still unsolicited, especially if it's unrelated to the original service/product
YMMV, but that's what I see. Which is probably why I don't think this will work.
I may be missing some big point here, but how can unsolicited mail be opt in? If I've opted in to receive it, then it's not unsolicited, is it? Or have I _really_ not got something basic here?
There's also a telephone preference scheme over here in the UK which means that you're not supposed to get called at home by advertisers or marketeers, but it seems to have made little or no difference to how many calls I get.
I'm suspicious of how well this will work, the ASA doesn't really have much power anyway, but it would be nice. The problem, however, may just move overseas. Heck, most of the crap I get is from the US anyway, so this won't help.
So if I stand near the camera's line of sight holding a number plate, the number plate will be read and the owner of the number plate will receive a demand for the money?
Cool.
I shall be trying this on Monday, and probably going to court about it in a couple of months.
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I always had a problem in the UK when BT said they needed to introduce new dialling codes because of needing more numbers because of increased mobile phone use. The numbers used by mobile (cell) phones in the UK don't resemble fixed line phone numbers at all. None of the area codes over here use 07xxx prefixes, yet I now have to dial 11 digits to contact central London (4 miles down the road) where I previously only had to dial 7.
Do the telecoms companies EVER pay for new stationery with the new numbers on it?
This might be posted on here below my current threshold, but in the UK there is a similar case going on between Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice, ex of the Spice Girls) and Portsmouth Football Club (also known as "the POSH") about who can use the name "Posh" when referring to themselves on their website
http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/an/Q britain-people-beckham.Romu_CN6.html [clari.net]
She is no older than 35, the club are like 100+ years old, and the phrase seems to come from Port Out Starboard Home anyway.
This is just lawyers being stupid & trying to get money out of people.
I hate lawyers
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If you have to "opt-in" somewhere, doesn't that make it no longer "unsolicited"? (not that that's a bad thing)
Dude, that's exactly what I was saying!
And if the checkbox says something like "we may share this information with trusted companies" then don't check the damn thing!
But I will miss getting my degree from an American University, being offered cheaper-than-drug-store medicine, and even finding out how I just won $BIGNUM on an imaginary lottery.
There is a difference between a regular opt-in news letter and a random spattering of e-mail or phone calls offering services you didn't ask for, even if you agreed to share your information. Does that make sense?
In a way, but it also still stands that I didn't opt in for the mail splattering - regardless of whether I actually said "yes" to the newsletter - so the mail splattering is still unsolicited, especially if it's unrelated to the original service/product
YMMV, but that's what I see. Which is probably why I don't think this will work.
I may be missing some big point here, but how can unsolicited mail be opt in? If I've opted in to receive it, then it's not unsolicited, is it? Or have I _really_ not got something basic here? There's also a telephone preference scheme over here in the UK which means that you're not supposed to get called at home by advertisers or marketeers, but it seems to have made little or no difference to how many calls I get. I'm suspicious of how well this will work, the ASA doesn't really have much power anyway, but it would be nice. The problem, however, may just move overseas. Heck, most of the crap I get is from the US anyway, so this won't help.
So if I stand near the camera's line of sight holding a number plate, the number plate will be read and the owner of the number plate will receive a demand for the money? Cool. I shall be trying this on Monday, and probably going to court about it in a couple of months. -- silas
I always had a problem in the UK when BT said they needed to introduce new dialling codes because of needing more numbers because of increased mobile phone use. The numbers used by mobile (cell) phones in the UK don't resemble fixed line phone numbers at all. None of the area codes over here use 07xxx prefixes, yet I now have to dial 11 digits to contact central London (4 miles down the road) where I previously only had to dial 7. Do the telecoms companies EVER pay for new stationery with the new numbers on it?
This might be posted on here below my current threshold, but in the UK there is a similar case going on between Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice, ex of the Spice Girls) and Portsmouth Football Club (also known as "the POSH") about who can use the name "Posh" when referring to themselves on their website http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/an/Q britain-people-beckham.Romu_CN6.html [clari.net]
She is no older than 35, the club are like 100+ years old, and the phrase seems to come from Port Out Starboard Home anyway.
This is just lawyers being stupid & trying to get money out of people.
I hate lawyers
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