Spammer escapes slammer (Updated)
The Lompoc Record is reporting that Jeffery Kilbride has escaped from the minimum security federal lockup. Kilbride was convicted in 2007 of offenses primarily related to the CAN-SPAM Act. Among the things that were apparently included was an allegation that Kilbride and his partner had impaired the ability to track them down by using false
“Forward to a Friend” and Germany
Lots of folks have been talking recently about a September [acp author=”Federal Court” title=”Judgment of the First Civil Senate of 12.09.2013 – I ZR 208/12″ year=”2013″ month=”September” day=”12″ id=”GFC-01″ url=”http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&Datum=2013-9&Seite=5&nr=65732&pos=170&anz=263″]German Federal Court ruling[/acp][acp footnote]I found an HTML version that I could run through Google Translate here.[/acp] that “emails sent using a ‘send to a friend’ function
Ten Business Days Doesn’t Help
I unsubscribed from a mailing list recently. When I did, I was confronted with the following message: We’re sorry to see you go. You should be aware that it could take up to ten business days to completely remove your address from our lists. That’s a pretty standard disclaimer that complies with the time limits
When is transactional mail not transactional anymore?
An interesting question came across my desk this morning. Here’s the request from someone we’ll call “Joe”: I need some help understanding CAN-SPAM requirements. I represent a membership organization. From time to time, we send marketing message to our members and, of course, some of the unsubscribe from those messages. Now we are getting to
Use Private Domain Registration and Go to Jail?
The 9th Circuit opinion in [acp author=”9th Circuit Court of Appeals” url=”http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?q=us+v+kilbride&hl=en&as_sdt=6,44&case=17927549797826193178&scilh=0″ title=”USA v. Kilbride” year=”2009″ month=”October” day=”28″ media=”website” publisher=”Google Scholar”]{title}, (9th Cir., {year})[/acp] has been released. This is primarily an obscenity case against the defendants for sending pornographic spam email. But, it also includes a challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 1037 on vagueness grounds.
Confirm to unsubscribe?
Question comes in this morning: Hey Mick? Requiring the confirmation of an email address in an unsubscription is not CAN-SPAM compliant, right? That is absolutely correct. The current implementing rules for CAN-SPAM state: Neither a sender nor any person acting on behalf of a sender may require that any recipient pay any fee, provide any
A CAN-SPAM Checklist
Today we’re going to create a checklist of things required for CAN-SPAM compliance. So, you want to make sure that you actually comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and not just say that you do. This post isn’t for you. You might learn something here and if you do, that’s great. But, instead, this
When web experts opine about email…
you get incredibly dumb statements like this one: Like promotional e-mail, transactional e-mail by nature bypasses search engines. Uh? What? My car also by nature bypasses search engines (although it does, in fact, have an engine of its own, thus providing at least as much linkage to search engines as transactional email has). Maria Krueger is
Email is about relationships
Did you know that it’s entirely possible to learn the wrong lessons? Well, it is. I use Zemanta to suggest possible links for blog posts. As I was writing yesterday’s blog post, a suggested link came up dealing with CAN-SPAM and the definition of “spam”. That post by [acp author=”Roger Bauer” media=”blog” day=”9″ month=”December” year=”2009″