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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:16:27 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net> Organization: -ENOENT Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:33:55 +0530 To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, mom () netmom com Subject: Re: [IP] donotcall.gov Dave Farber wrote:
*Jean Armour Polly <mom () netmom com> *Dave- when will they start a DO NOT E-MAIL registry?? I registered my home phone and fax successfully (they send a verification email to you, you have to click on a link to verify) but never got an email back on the third number I added--my cell phone. Glitch?
Two things - Telemarketing to cellphones is already streng verboten under the terms of the TCPA. Second - there are at least some bills (such as the one introduced by Senator Schumer) that propose a federal do not email list. The issues associated with it are - 1. The DMA - aka the Direct Marketing Association (an outfit that is flush with cash and well supplied with lobbyists) is screaming bloody murder [no surprise, that!) 2. Address churn (new guy getting an email address after the old guy discards it), and validation problems. 3. The need for such a list to recognize "domain wide" and "ISP wide" optout in such a list - spammers routinely send to bogus addresses - my logs are full of stuff like, for example, attempted deliveries to usenet message ids - 2003-06-27 10:05:26 H=fep01-0.kolumbus.fi (fep01-app.kolumbus.fi) [193.2 29.0.41] F=<CraineGessel () lycos com> rejected RCPT <slrn9n1ldc.99d.devnull () frodo kcircle com>: Unrouteable address That <slrn[whatever]> address this spammer tried to deliver to is the message id of an article I posted to usenet back in 2001 - <http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=slrn9n1ldc.99d.devnull%40frodo.kc ircle.com> srs ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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