Comments on: Social Networking and Email Marketing http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/business-management/social-networking-and-email-marketing Netweaving Your Way to Your MBA (Massive Bank Account)! Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:20:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Charly Leetham http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/business-management/social-networking-and-email-marketing/comment-page-1#comment-876 Charly Leetham Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:12:18 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=779#comment-876 Hi James, I agree that the practice does not expressly violate the CanSpam Act. My aim in discussing the issue is to raise the 'discourtesy' of automatically subscribing your connections to your emailing list and the possible consequences of doing so. Thanks for the tips and I mostly certainly do make use of the unsubscribe and junk email functions as well. Cheers! Hi James,

I agree that the practice does not expressly violate the CanSpam Act.

My aim in discussing the issue is to raise the ‘discourtesy’ of automatically subscribing your connections to your emailing list and the possible consequences of doing so.

Thanks for the tips and I mostly certainly do make use of the unsubscribe and junk email functions as well.

Cheers!

]]> By: James O'Brien http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/business-management/social-networking-and-email-marketing/comment-page-1#comment-869 James O'Brien Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:53:42 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=779#comment-869 Charly, LashBack monitors commercial email for compliance and I can tell you while you are right to be angry about these practices they do not expressly violate the Can-Spam Act. The Act does not require permission to send commercial email but does place nine other requirements on the messages inclusing that they unsubscribe you when requested. One potential violation is that if the sender is using software to systematically mine email addresses from any website, this is considered harvesting and is a violation of the Can-Spam Act. I would advise if you don't want to complain directly to Linked-In that you should hit that spam/junk button and file your complaint with your ISP. This is a very effective way to stop the se sender from engaging in poor practices as the more inbox owners provide that feedback, the more ISPs will throttle and block repetitive bad senders. Happy Holidays! Charly, LashBack monitors commercial email for compliance and I can tell you while you are right to be angry about these practices they do not expressly violate the Can-Spam Act. The Act does not require permission to send commercial email but does place nine other requirements on the messages inclusing that they unsubscribe you when requested. One potential violation is that if the sender is using software to systematically mine email addresses from any website, this is considered harvesting and is a violation of the Can-Spam Act. I would advise if you don’t want to complain directly to Linked-In that you should hit that spam/junk button and file your complaint with your ISP. This is a very effective way to stop the se sender from engaging in poor practices as the more inbox owners provide that feedback, the more ISPs will throttle and block repetitive bad senders. Happy Holidays!

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