FC: Direct Marketing Ass'n changes mind, wants anti-spam laws

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-962821.html

   Direct marketers want anti-spam laws
   By Declan McCullagh
   October 21, 2002, 3:48 PM PT

   The Direct Marketing Association said Monday that unsolicited e-mail
   has become so noxious that a federal anti-spam law is finally
   necessary.

   Until now, the DMA has opposed the majority of anti-spam bills in
   Congress or offered only lukewarm support. But the ever-rising tide of
   junk e-mail has made the influential trade association rethink its
   stand.

   "Even legitimate business' messages are not being looked at because of
   the get-rich-quick schemes and pornography and so forth," Jerry
   Cerasale, the DMA's vice president for government affairs, said in a
   telephone interview Monday afternoon.

   [...]




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