Comments on: Lunar Legal – Commercial Email Rules Under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 http://www.web-hosting-newsletter.com/2008/05/30/commercial-email-rules-under-the-can-spam-act-of-2003/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=commercial-email-rules-under-the-can-spam-act-of-2003 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pat from Winnemucca http://www.web-hosting-newsletter.com/2008/05/30/commercial-email-rules-under-the-can-spam-act-of-2003/comment-page-1/#comment-2040 Pat from Winnemucca Sat, 31 May 2008 17:41:09 +0000 http://www.web-hosting-newsletter.com/?p=306#comment-2040 I do not see the act as providing any real protection. but it is a step in the right direction. What would benefit the telecomunications industry and the consumers it serves would be a method of reducing telephone spam. Roughly 90% of the calls I get at home are robot telemarketers. Perhaps changing the way calls are billed might make a big difference. If it cost a marketer a penny for each outgoing call with a reasonable number of "free" calls perhaps these people would target their calls more efficiently. Two cents would be better, and a nickel better still. A legitimate business would not be hurt if they had to pay a penny or two after the first thousand calls out of their area code, but for telemarketers it would be a disaster. So how is this related to the CAN act? These are two heads of the same snake. Cut off one head and then you can deal with the other. I do not see the act as providing any real protection. but it is a step in the right direction. What would benefit the telecomunications industry and the consumers it serves would be a method of reducing telephone spam. Roughly 90% of the calls I get at home are robot telemarketers. Perhaps changing the way calls are billed might make a big difference. If it cost a marketer a penny for each outgoing call with a reasonable number of “free” calls perhaps these people would target their calls more efficiently. Two cents would be better, and a nickel better still. A legitimate business would not be hurt if they had to pay a penny or two after the first thousand calls out of their area code, but for telemarketers it would be a disaster.

So how is this related to the CAN act?
These are two heads of the same snake. Cut off one head and then you can deal with the other.

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