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Date: | Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:22:35 -0500 |
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Looks like it's my week for off-topic posts. :-)
Just got a pretty standard piece of spam offering an investment
newsletter. I was about to hit 'delete' when the tag line caught my eye:
> Under bill s.1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th U.S. Congress
> this letter can not be considered spam as we include: Contact
> information and a Remove Link.
Is this true? Can they really avoid prosecution just by including a
valid contact e-mail address and an alleged 'remove link', even if the
e-mail headers are bogus? (I don't *know* they are, but I suspect so --
what country is 'cz', anyway?)
To me, *any* unsolicited e-mail is spam. Does Congress have a different
definition? Is this spammer BS or a real loophole?
Patrick
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Patrick Santucci
Technical Services Analyst
KVI, a division of Seabury & Smith, Inc.
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