Originally posted by: Wreckem
Originally posted by: MrChad
http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/can-spam.shtml
My understanding is that they are required to allow you to opt-out of unsolicited email.
Yes but the email he is getting isnt unsolicited. He solicited it and now wants out. They arent breaking any laws, nor could he sue them. He should have just used a junkmail filter. Hes going to need it anyways. Once you subsribe to one, you are in for a deluge of spam.
Which makes it unsolicted under US law. If he's in the US
CANSPAM:
"The CAN-SPAM Act applies to essentially all businesses in the US that use e-mail. It defines a "commercial electronic mail message" -- which is regulated by this law -- as any e-mail message "the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service (including content on an Internet website operated for a commercial purpose)" (Sec. 3(2)). Nearly any business e-mail would be covered -- e-mail newsletters as well as standalone promotional e-mails. That doesn't mean that all your e-mails are spam, only that the Act governs them. Personal e-mails (and perhaps non-profit organizations) don't seem to be covered. The Act's definition of commercial e-mail explicitly excludes "a transactional or relationship message" (Sec. 3(2)(B)), covering e-mails contacting customers about their accounts, product upgrades, ongoing services, etc."
These newletters are not bonafide relationship mails.
"It requires that your email give recipients an opt-out method. You must provide a return email address or another Internet-based response mechanism that allows a recipient to ask you not to send future email messages to that email address, and you must honor the requests. You may create a "menu" of choices to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to end any commercial messages from the sender."
If you don't know the laws, don't post like you do.
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