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Spam Now Legal In The US
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As expected, President Bush signed the so-called "CAN SPAM" bill into law today, effectively legalizing spam. What the law does is make sure that anyone now has the right to spam you legitimately, so long as they provide contact information and a way to opt-out. This means, the floodgates will open as all those out-of-work telemarketers now have a new job: spamming you. Wasn't the law supposed to stop spam? Well, the one anti-spam idea in the bill is that it bans people from faking headers for the sake of spamming - which would make a difference if spammers actually cared about the law. They've shown already that they're not too concerned, and thanks to their ability to fake headers and route their spam through many different computers, it will be very difficult to track them down. So, now we'll be getting much more "legitimate" spam, and just as much, if not more, fraudulent spam. Why is this a good law again?
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Spam is not bad
I was reading the article on spamming laws. I am a proffesional business man and market my clients products and services for a living as one of my many businesses I own. Spam is usually thought of as criminal or looked down upon. It really is no different than getting advertisements in your mail at home, so whats really the big deal? No one complains about getting advertisements in the mail but they complain about getting offers in their E-mail box. One of my methods of marketing is mass mail marketing, and so called "spamming" or mass E-mail marketing. Spamming is the same as mass mail marketing except with E-mails rather than actual addresses. Mass mail marketing is not looked down upon, so why should "mass Email marketing"? And most of my customers have found about about my services through emails I have sent out and most of them are satisfied with the products or services I offer. The new "laws" actually make it extremely hard for people to do mass email marketing rather than make it easier. It was legal to spam before these new sets of laws but now they just make it harder for legitimate business men like me just trying to earn a living.
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DEATH TO THE IGNORANT SPAMMER
Actually you are a disease. SPAM is the lowest crappiest form of internet advertising and actually shows how lazy your company is, and in this day and age of saavy internet users who DETEST SPAMMERS will turn away business to other companys who use legitimate forms of advertising. Aside from that you are also contributing to the 300+ crap mails that each american deletes every morning, thanks jerk off. Internet advocates like me will continue to wage a furious fight agains spam until it is all stopmed out and idiots like you will STFU! You weak argument is "they just make it harder for legitimate business men like me just trying to earn a living." ummm.... if your a spammer your not legitimate, you are just a failure so who cares what happens to you as long as your pollution of a once usable internet is stopped. Thanks for admitting to the world your stupidity and greed, now go find a legitimate form of advertising for this your companys or stop calling your self "a proffesional business man" If SPAM is the best you can do. You suck at marketing.
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Spam is Actually Good.
Spam is actually good and not malicious. Think about it, would you rather get advertising in the mail, have to open it, carry it back to the house, generate waste by throwing it away, and so on. Or get a simple email, you can get rid of in a click? Besides, it really is effective. If spam is controlled and sent out to the right demographic, your business can generate enourmous profit in a short time. I'm proof of that. I think everyone is anti-spam because they really don't understand what it's replacing. Don't be blind folks, we're not calling you during dinner or filling up your real mailbox.
You'll thank us one day.
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