In the past week I've received 3 emails related to this from lists that I was involuntarily subscribed to and could not easily unsubscribe from. It's great. They all say something like "due to new anti-spam laws you must confirm you wish to stay subscribed, please reply to subscribe"
Of course they all go to spam already, but it still made me do a silent "boo-yeah" :D ...if people still do that. On 1 July 2014 00:51, Ric Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > I have not read the text of the law but I heard that it does not apply to > membership type e-mails. > > > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Roswyne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is probably old news to many of you, but I was just talking to a >> friend who's still implementing required changes for his work. He indicated >> there will be an immediate impact on anyone maintaining a mailing list for >> any reason that is not strictly personal. Key points are: >> >> * violations can result in large fines for the organization itself (up to >> $10 million >> >> * violations can result in fines to executives of the organization ($1 >> million) >> >> * proof of explicit consent to join the mailing list is now required >> (simply providing an email address to the organization is not sufficient to >> establish consent to receive "bulk mailings") >> >> * requests to unsubscribe must be acted on within 10 (calendar) days (and >> this should be logged to establish compliance) >> >> * all "bulk mailings" must include information on how to unsubscribe, >> including the organization's physical address >> >> None of this sounds particularly difficult to implement, but since not >> making any required changes to existing processes could have such harsh >> consequences, I thought it was better to inform/remind folks. :) >> >> This may be relevant to other organizations you belong to as well! >> >> For more information, check out the government website - >> http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/home >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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