Spam Defined
One of the challenges in legislating against Spam is to define what it is. We all recognize the typical spam from unknown sources trying to sell us drugs or other products. It is not easy though to define where the dividing line is between those and legitimate email.
The US FTC has just released its rules under the CAN-SPAM Act that determines when email has a commercial primary purpose and is subject to the act.
As evidence of the difficulty in defining it – the document is 81 pages long!
