| Comment Number: | OL-100020 |
| Received: | 8/16/2004 5:49:59 PM |
| Organization: | |
| Commenter: | Carsten Turner |
| State: | MA |
| Agency: | Federal Trade Commission |
| Rule: | Definitions, Implementation, and Reporting Requirements Under the CAN-SPAM Act (NPRM) |
| Docket ID: | [3084-AA96] |
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Comments:
Firstly, I wish to state that the CAN-SPAM legislation as written is fundamentally and irretrevably flawed, unable to make a serious dent in the scourge of spam. That being said, I think that any rules governing the definiton of spam include verbiage defining spam as that which contains a subject line that an average citizen would find misleading. This could be interpreted as a subject that has little relation to the body of the message. Another commonality of spam is the deliberate mis-spelling of words in an effort (again, decided by the "average citizen" model,) to pass circumvent anti-spam software. Yet another defining technique is the addition of unrelated words with no grammatical structure, so placed to circumvent anti-spam measures.