Except that Utah's law was just resounding defeated in its first test in
court and
the written judgement makes it difficult to ever collect from sleazy
spammer and impossible from a 'honest' (or at least open) one
Yes. But I am sure that they will be updating the spam laws here in
Utah. (In fact, I know they are.)
Anyway, this case was defeated partly because the person had "opted-in" to
a list that was then sold to Sprint. The judge simply said that since he
had opted-in that Sprint had the right to send him e-mail. So, while this
person was defeated, it wasn't a real test of the law.
I am working with the legislators here and attempting to try to get some
guidelines put into the legislation. For example, all opt-in lists must
contain information about when/how the person opted in and it must be
contained in the e-mail and if someone opts out from the originating list
then the person with the list must contact all those that they sold it to
and notify them that you opted out.
-Art
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Art Pollard
http://www.lextek.com/
Suppliers of High Performance Text Retrieval Engines.
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