[While I was writing about commercial speech and relatively obscure First Amendment jurisprudence in my spam article (http://www.politechbot.com/p-03944.html), Ian found the real story. Apparently the anti-spammers are a bit spammy themselves. Nicely found! --Declan] --- From: "Ian Hopper" <ihopperat_private> To: <declanat_private> Subject: RE: Groups ask FTC to can spam; opponents say it goes too far Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:48:59 -0400 My spam story is a little bit different. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020904/ap_on_hi_te/spam_site_2 --- Anti-Spam Movement Accused of Spam Wed Sep 4,12:38 PM ET By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A new initiative by consumer groups to bring federal action against companies that send unsolicited e-mail, known as "spam," was undercut Wednesday when the groups themselves were accused of spamming. The Web site, banthespam.com, encourages Internet users to share their spam horror stories and add their names to a petition to be sent to federal regulators. Even if an Internet user chose not to receive e-mail updates from the Telecommunications Research and Action Center, one of the effort's sponsors, the Web site replied with the message: "You are currently signed up for news and information." [...] --- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:24:12 -0700 From: "Sonia Arrison" <SArrisonat_private> To: <declanat_private> Your Politech readers may enjoy this article on spam: http://www.pacificresearch.org/press/opd/2002/opd_02-07-08sa.html --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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