Monday, September 22, 2003
Th Guardian last Friday (September 19, 2003) ran a story entitlesd Unlimited fines threatened for spam emails: Senders will need recipients' consent under crackdown by Alok Jha their science correspondent
The plan apparently is that from December organisations (err... what is the definition?) will need prior consent to send unsolicited emails to individual users, although sending messages to company email addresses will be exempt from the law. ....anti-spam campaigners said the new laws would make little difference to individual users and will effectively legalise the spamming of company email addresses.
Spam is defined in the legislation as "unsolicited email sent without the consent of the addressee and without any attempt at targeting recipients who are likely to be interested in its contents"... The new legislation means that unsolicited emails or mobile phone text messages cannot be sent to users without their prior agreement or unless there is an existing customer relationship.
This could make it very difficult to engage in online delphi or other questionnaire studies for scholalrly research purposes!
The plan apparently is that from December organisations (err... what is the definition?) will need prior consent to send unsolicited emails to individual users, although sending messages to company email addresses will be exempt from the law. ....anti-spam campaigners said the new laws would make little difference to individual users and will effectively legalise the spamming of company email addresses.
Spam is defined in the legislation as "unsolicited email sent without the consent of the addressee and without any attempt at targeting recipients who are likely to be interested in its contents"... The new legislation means that unsolicited emails or mobile phone text messages cannot be sent to users without their prior agreement or unless there is an existing customer relationship.
This could make it very difficult to engage in online delphi or other questionnaire studies for scholalrly research purposes!
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