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Great post. "You are not allowed to cause the company to break the law." With spam, growth hacking and whatever someone calls it these days, I see a violation
by chinathrow 11y ago
Great post.
"You are not allowed to cause the company to break the law."
With spam, growth hacking and whatever someone calls it these days, I see a violation of this rule multiple times a day - done by startups, small businesses and even large corporations. Every single unsolicited mail is breaking those anti spam laws.
And yes, I know the laws where I conduct business about spam, UCE, UBE and whatnot.
- jacquesm 11y agoSpam is a real problem. The background is that the law now centers on the sender of the message, rather than the beneficiary of the spam, so spam services simply pop up in places that don't have such laws. Having the law go after the beneficiaries is also fraught with danger, it would be tremendously easy to do a joe job on a competitor. Spam is not a simple problem, filtering and education so far seems to be the most effective ways of dealing with it.
- chinathrow 11y agoMy post was not so much about spam services, more about companies, from startup to large, listed companies who simply ignore current law (opt-in) in the country where I conduct business. In these cases, the sender is mostly the beneficiary too. Such spam mostly gets through filters which makes it costly in terms to handle. Most folks don't even care when I tell them about current legislation - I am thinking about starting to sue these companies.
- jacquesm 11y agoAh right, yes I understand now. Such spam I simply forward to the local anti-spam watchdog (OPTA, in my case) with a form letter I made for the purpose and a CC to the sender. Very very rarely do they reply (both the OPTA and the senders), never have I seen another email from a sender that got that treatment.