Thursday, September 23, 2004

Did ya see this coming?

Thanks to the Can-Spam Act, your email just became more dangerous. The Register reports that spammers are including the "click here to remove" link as required by the Can-Spam act, but doing so lets the sender know your account is active. Thus you are entitled to more having your account added to a listing of active accounts, making their listing more valuable. Gee, why don't we just publish an "email book," send it to everyone electronically and save the spammers some time. I'm grateful that J-Walk picked up this article. His site generates traffic measured in the thousands. I have hope that this will get around.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That kind of thing is so frustrating for a legitimate company that sends e-mails to people who have requested them. These companies *want* people to unsubscribe automatically if they decide they don't want e-mail anymore, but that kind of scare throws a wrench in the process and makes the whole thing way more manual and difficult.