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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:07:05PM -0500, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve wrote:
> On Thursday 09 January 2003 07:0519pm, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger 
> wrote:
> > Has anyone else been cursed with spam from the Council for
> > Entrepreneurial Development? You would think an outfit with the
> > purpose of helping startups would at least know how to run an opt-in
> > mailing list, but no. I've been getting about one email every other
> > day advertising some conference they have coming up, and nothing will
> > get them to stop:
> 
> > 1.They don't have a mailing list-- its just broadcast email.
> > 2. No instructions for getting off the email is in the message or on
> > their site.
> > 3. I've tried sending email to the office.
> > 4. I've tried calling the office and talking to a human.
> > 5. I've tried reporting them via SpamCop.
> 
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> Forward it to the FTC:

Uh, please don't do that. 

I've already said we're looking into it, and I meant it. Michael was at
one time a member of the CED, which makes the mailings fall into that
gray area of "previously existing business relationship". I get them,
too, and we're working on the CED to try to educate them about the need
for a more detailed policy on how such info is used, when, and why, and
how to inform their members about their intentions. OK? OK. Thanks.

Besides, I've been forwarding 2-3K messages a month to the FTC and as far
as I know, they're just archiving it for analysis at some "future date".

Unless it involves interstate commerce or fraud, they will not, and can
not, do anything about it. And that's how it should be, frankly - the
FTC isn't chartered to deal with intrastate commerce, which is what, at
best, this situation involves.

Steve

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