Re: RIPE32 Anti-spam WG minutes (draft 1.1)
- Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:07:56 +0100
Something like:
"Member States shall lay down in their legislation that
unsolicited commercial communication by electronic mail
is forbidden, unless the recipient has given a clear
permission to receive such mails from a certain sender".
... in which case it is no longer "unsolicited". Lose
everything from "unless" onwards and see how it goes.
That would make "acceptable spam" illegal, which is not
what you want. Just 2 examples:
1) I don't want UCE in general, except when it's about
"cars". That's why I suggested to allow or require
keywords in an X-UCE header line.
2) I'm on a mailing list through which I receive info
of interest for my organisation. With permission
from the list owner, but without my knowledge or
consent, a commercial company uses the list to send
me info. Since my organisation is interested in this
info, I accept it, although strictly speaking this
would be UCE. I consider being on said mailing list
as implicit permission to send me such info.
Therefore I'd suggest:
"Member States shall lay down in their legislation that
unsolicited commercial communication by electronic mail
is forbidden, unless the recipient has given implicit
or explicit permission to receive such communication,
in general, specified, or from (a) certain sender(s)".
Piet
