Can you obey the law and still be a spammer? Leave it to the politicians to show you how it's done.
Charlie
Crist, attorney general of Florida and gubernatorial candidate, styles
himself as an anti-spam crusader. Indeed, he proposed legislation to
fight spam in Florida, and has made it a priority to enforce it. So how
could Floridians complain that his election campaign is spamming them?
Democrats and Republicans alike were infuriated that the email they
received from Crist's campaign was unsolicited, and therefore spam, as
reported by the St. Petersburg Times.
"He's not living up to his own standards," complained Dorothy Butler
in the same newspaper; Butler is a Democratic recipient of Crist's
email solicitation. "To me this is spam because I never asked for any
of his political stuff."
Although that message did have instructions on how to opt-out,
another recipient complained his repeated requests to be removed from
the list went ignored until he wrote to the campaign reminding them of
Crist's anti-spam credentials.
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