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I Had A CAN-SPAM Compliant Dinner Last Night

If you’re working in the email space, everything is “CAN-SPAM compliant.” But does it make any sense to say, “I had a CAN-SPAM compliant dinner last night”?

No? I didn’t think so either.

But what makes an email database “CAN-SPAM compliant?” I came across a press release wherein the company purports to offer “more than 50 additional healthcare marketing databases. All email databases are CAN/SPAM compliant.”1

So, what exactly makes a database “CAN-SPAM compliant”?

I suspect that it means that all of the addresses were gained from some other method than scraping websites.

Footnotes

  1. Susan Duensing, Newly Updated for 2008: Expanded Physician E Mail Contacts from Direct Medical Data Unique and Multiple Location Contacts from AMA and Proprietary Database, PRWeb (2008), https://web.archive.org/web/20080607083209/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb991314.htm (last visited Jun 4, 2008). ↩︎
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Mickey

A recognized leader in the fight against online abuse, specializing in email anti-abuse, compliance, deliverability, privacy, and data protection. With over 20 years of experience tackling messaging abuse, I help organizations clean up their networks and maintain a safe, secure environment.