[SpamCop-List] Re: Dubious or legit? Claim of "Can Spam" Complience.

[John E. Malmberg]

Ben wrote:
> Humm..
> 
> I actually got a spam that 'appeared' to be in compliance with
> the "Can Spam" act.  At the tail of the spam they had a section
> that said "US Can Spam Compliance" where they posted a postal
> address of both the company being advertised and the company who
> was spamming for a fee; a phone number, a FAX number, their
> "Customer Service" email address and a web address for "removal."

I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.

Besides the contact information, can-spam has other requirements.

One is that the headers, routing information, and such must not be 
misleading.

It also may require that the sender not use misleading subjects or 
misleading sending address.

And I seem to recall that they are not allowed to harvest e-mail 
addresses from the internet or purchase them from someone else who has 
harvested them.

In short, the are very few ways that they can legitimately have your 
e-mail address to spam and still be in compliance.

And then there are very few networks that are not in sbl.spamhaus.org 
that will allow a spammer to operate, and the only way to get around the 
sbl.spamhaus.org is to use an open proxy or an open relay, or otherwise 
have "misleading" headers.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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