[Boatanchors] GRIPE

[J. Forster]

I have a LOT of experience with the CAN-Spam Act. I've never seen them
take ANY action against ANY spammer, despite thousands of complaints.

A to opt-out links, spammers use them to load malware on your system. I
NEVER click on them.

The FTC is a toothless tiger. If you'd like I can send you several hundred
examples of "Dr Oz" spams that have been violating CAN-SPAM for months and
months.

The fix is simple....  the ARC5 Group Owner should click his/her mouse a
couple of times.

-John

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> The CAN SPAM act addresses just this sort of problem. Perhaps a
> complaint to the appropriate agency (FTC, FCC, or whoever) will get the
> site operator to follow customary policies on not adding people to the
> mailing list without their permission and not providing an opt out link
> on each e-mail sent out by the list as is required by law.
>
> On 09/26/2013 07:19 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> Right,
>>
>> -John
>>
>> =============
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF
>>> <dfischer at usol.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bill, go to the 'mailman.qth.net' website. Locate the list of options.
>>>> Find
>>>> the one that allows you to be removed from a list. Then follow the
>>>> screen
>>>> prompts and simply unsubscribe.
>>> Duane,
>>>
>>> That will solve his problem that one time.  But going through all that
>>> is a PITA, takes up his time, and he shouldn't have do to it, because
>>> it is an ARC5 configuration problem.
>>> I've been through all of that and forget about it after a few months.
>>> Then some big confabulation takes place with a lot of cross posted
>>> replies; I reply forgetting about what happened months earlier, and
>>> I'm right back on the ARC5 email list again.  I don't have a command
>>> set; I don't want a command set, I have little interest in them (no
>>> offense but I simply don't) and that's the only email list I know of,
>>> that automatically sucks people into it without asking them--why it is
>>> set up that way I'd like to know.  Sure you can say I should be aware
>>> of what I'm replying to, but if ARC5 list were set up right, my mail
>>> to it would just get rejected like all the others do if I'm not a
>>> member.
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Rob
>>> K5UJ
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