Spam Disclaimer??

[Ian]

I believe now if you send unsolicited email that you must enclose a legal or valid way of allowing people to remove them selves from your mailing list.
Here is a disclaimer from some idiot who sent me an email.

This is a one time mailing, but if you would like to remove yourself from our list anyway, click here: REMOVE ME. Simply click
send when your e-mail program opens. Do Not Reply to this email, Your e-mail address cannot be deleted if you do.Now come on, first of all it says it is a "one time mailing", so why would you want to remove yourself if you're not going to get any more....Second, it says "Do Not Reply to this email, Your e-mail address cannot be deleted if you do".. DOH, why would you want to if it is once again a one time mailing.

Is this idiot infact breaking the law by not disclosing correct information. maybe if I post the addy where it came from, a spam bot cruising the board may pick it up and start spamming him back. :)
asby6541@yahoo.com

[Jason]

It's proably a dead email address by now anyway. These guys usually just hop around on free accounts, or just paste some fake address into the "from" field in their spam program.

[kevin]

There is some federal law about unsolicited email but I'm not familiar with it in detail. About the email you posted:

This is a one time mailing, but if you would like to remove yourself from our list anyway, click here: REMOVE ME. Simply click
send when your e-mail program opens. Do Not Reply to this email, Your e-mail address cannot be deleted if you do.

That is generally a scam. The real intention is to make you send the REMOVE ME reply or request the information, either way you did what they want. Your email is verified and added to email mailing lists to be sold to marketers. The offer in the mail is just to make it seem legitimate and you may or may not get whatever was being offered, but the real intention is to tie your name into whatever the service or product was that was offered. This allows them to target your name very specifically to the type of information or product being offered (and sell the list for more money). If it was an offer for free information regarding a certain type of buisness opportunity or a certain type of loan, then your name will be sold to marketers looking for people that have been known to express a recent interest in the specific information....that is valuable information to marketers.

The worst thing you can do (from their perspective), is delete the email without responding either way.

Some of those types of email might be legitimate, but the vast majority are not.

Regards,
Kevin