If you want to get THAT pedantic about it, so is sending an email. After all, I can usually get info on the person's anti-spam solution, what MUA (other than the web interface) they used, and often the IP address they used to send the message via headers.
I suppose that you COULD make a case that some bot-protection script that REQUIRED something like a User-Agent header would run afoul of the "no information other" requirement, but we all know that's not what the law is talking about. Additionally, I'd point out that it talks about requiring certain information. If you give up other data yourself (such as through your default browser settings), I'm not seeing as how that's a violation, even if that data gets collected. On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:56 AM Michael Peddemors via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > Not to be a 'nitpicker', but isn't visiting a URL providing a lot more > information that just the email address opt-out preferences ;) > > Course, even worse are those companies that have an opt-out link that > then asks for your email address ;) Doh! > > On 2021-10-27 9:31 a.m., Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop wrote: > > Here is what CAN-SPAM requires, following the updated rules issued by > the FTC in May of 2008; this is the "single step" requirement: > > > > ยง 316.5 Prohibition on charging a fee or imposing other requirements on > recipients who wish to opt out. > > > > Neither a sender nor any person acting on behalf of a sender may require > that any recipient pay any fee, provide any information other than the > recipient's electronic mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any > other steps except sending a reply electronic mail message or visiting a > single Internet Web page, in order to: > > > > (a) Use a return electronic mail address or other Internet-based > mechanism, required by 15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3), to submit a request not to > receive future commercial electronic mail messages from a sender; or > > > > (b) Have such a request honored as required by 15 U.S.C. 7704(a)(3)(B) > and (a)(4). > > > > From: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/part-316 > > > > Anne > > --- > > > > Anne P. Mitchell, > > Attorney at Law > > CEO Get to the Inbox by SuretyMail > > Author: Section 6 of the Federal Email Marketing Law (CAN-SPAM) > > Author: The Email Deliverability Handbook > > Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange > > Chair Emeritus, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop > > Former Counsel: MAPS Anti-Spam Blacklist > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mailop mailing list > > mailop@mailop.org > > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop > > > > > > -- > "Catch the Magic of Linux..." > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc. > Visit us at http://www.linuxmagic.com @linuxmagic > A Wizard IT Company - For More Info http://www.wizard.ca > "LinuxMagic" a Registered TradeMark of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 604-682-0300 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada > > This email and any electronic data contained are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. > Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely > those of the author and are not intended to represent those of the company. > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop >
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