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["Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>]

The President of CED is being informed of 
the situation.

Cheers!

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:46:15 -0500 Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
wrote:

> 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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