New Email Legislation Alert!

[D.Koenemann]

I don't know if any of you are aware of this so I thought I would post it here. This is an email I just received this evening.

Hi Dennis,

Yanik Silver here with a very urgent plea for
help from all our Surefire Marketing affiliates.

My good friend Marlon Sanders called me up and
explained something I didn't realize with the new
email legislation...

Frankly, I was shocked and your future affiliate
earnings are at stake.

Please read on - there's nothing to buy - I promise.

You know those affiliate checks you get each month?
They'll be a LOT smaller if you guys and gals don't
take action TODAY.

Why?

Because before you can email ANY affiliate offer to your
list, you'll have to upload YOUR CUSTOMERS or Opt-ins to
a suppression list site, cleanse it against all remove
requests for that product, download it, upload it BACK
to your autoresponder, do your mailing, download the removes,
upload them to the suppression list site.

PROOF: Look at http://MySuppressionList.com

That is the future unless you go to the FTC web site
right this very second to voice your opinion. Marlon
has set-up a sample letter to email or Fed-Ex.

If this goes through email marketing will be changed
FOREVER! But WE have power and control over how the FTC
decides to enforce the Can-Spam law.

Trust me, unless we stand up for ourselves, it won't be
a pretty sight.

Please go to Marlon's site right now and follow the
instructions there (he's made it real easy).

http://www.yousubscribed.com/canspam

I urge and implore you because our marketing future
is at stake (I'm totally serious). The Gov't has
a deadline of April 20th, 2004 before they start
making recommendations - please take a moment
and do this immediately.

Thank you,

Yanik Silver

P.S. Here's the link again:

http://www.yousubscribed.com/canspam

This is something we all need to take action on, speak out or we will not be able to afford to do business on the net. :angry:

D.Koenemann

[gotoguybo]

all righty then

[Andre]

Thank you for bringing this up.

I have done this now.

I hope everybody else that reads this is doing so,
it only takes you about 5 - 10 min, it Is Important.

[Andre]

Ok, I had to go back and read some more about this..

I learned some Very interesting stuff about this whole
thing.

I especially find it interesting that they are Actually
calling it spam if you forward a email with some sort of
advertising content.

Ex.
You have a ezine that earns money from sending out
information along with advertising.

You send out your weekly newsletter, and one of your
readers finds an article in there that was very helpful.
The reader decide to send this helpful information to a
friend. (This is pretty normal I think). Now, for some
reason that friend find some of the content in the newsletter
offending and decides to Complain...

Even if it was His friend that Forwarded this email, You
as the owner of the ezine could be accused of delivering
SPAM... :blink: (In some states one can be arrested
for sending out spam with the new spam Law).

I know this is a extreme example and that it probably
never will happen, but they actually have this in the
new spam law. This is just one of the many things we
should speak our mind about I think.

[D.Koenemann]

The more you dig into this really it starts to indicate just how serious a threat this is to anyone doing business on the net. Below is a link to a blog by Paul Meyers that you may find very informative.

http://www.talkbiz.net/ramblings/weblog.php

D.Koenemann