Posted on 08/22/2009 8:32:47 AM PDT by aragona
Fox identified the private company responsible for sending the spam email from Axelrod and Obama. They are called GovDelivery.com
I sent the spam firm an email requesting to opt out of their distribution lists. I don't know if that will work or not. Does the Do Not Call rule apply to email spammers?
http://www.govdelivery.com/contact
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
vi /etc/postfix/client_access
208.42.179.123 DISCARD SPAM
:wq
postmap /etc/postfix/client_access
postfix reload
That’ll fix’em! ;^)
You asked — Does the Do Not Call rule apply to email spammers?
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No...
Management Team
Scott Burns - CEO & Co-Founder
Scott has actively participated in government affairs throughout his life. Prior to co-founding GovDelivery, Inc., Scott was the Director of Marketing at SafeRent, Inc., which was the leading provider of web-based tenant screening services to apartment managers. Before SafeRent, Scott was a consultant at McKinsey and Company where he worked on new product launches and operational effectiveness for several multinational corporations. He is an active member of the Minnesota Citizens League and regularly advises GovDelivery clients on e-government related issues. Scott has received several awards for his business accomplishments and community contributions. In May, he was honored with the 2006 “Forty Under 40” award from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. In the Spring of 2006, he was recognized as an “Emerging Leader” by Twin Cities Business magazine. Most recently, Scott was named to Federal Computer Week’s (FCW) Federal 100 list recognizing individuals those who significantly influence how federal government uses information technology. Scott graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Economics.
http://www.govdelivery.com/management.php
Ping for later
Many are hopeful that the Obama administration's pro-new media attitude and familiarity will bring policy changes. Scott Burns, chief executive officer of GovDelivery, a St. Paul, Minn.-based firm providing software and services for government-to-citizen communication, says he expects security and privacy rules to be updated so agencies can take advantage of free offerings such as YouTube and Google maps. "It's very clear that they'll be engaged in updating some of the rules and regulations so the federal Web managers, who are clamoring to use these tools, will be able to use them more easily," he says.
Rule changes certainly would ease agencies' ability to use social media, but Godwin believes a firm go-ahead from the top would spur things along: "We really hope . . . the White House from its bully pulpit says, 'This is OK,' and gives agencies the comfort level to make that leap of faith."
http://www.govexec.com/features/0209-01/0209-01na3.htm
Still trying to track down the info that this company bought a suite for the Obama Coronation.
I have never seen anything even remotely like this administration.
Asking does this or that rule apply is useless.
Obama and his White House are rouges. They do not care about rules or laws or the American people at all.
They do whatever they want whenever they want with no regard for consequences.
They are out of control.
We have a rouge government.
Well that article is certainly a diversionary article of the main point. IT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND ILLEGAL OF OBAMA TO ‘HIRE’ THE FIRM WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS.!!
They send out solicitations for donations for various organizations — their email must be huge and explains why all of a sudden I received an email from the DCCC
Update your subscriptions, modify your e-mail address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your e-mail
address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact support@govdelivery.com. All other inquiries can be directed to
Please share this e-newsletter with colleagues and friends! If you know others who would benefit from receiving this e-newsletter, please send their email
addresses to dcpspartnerships@dc.gov.
This e-newsletter is provided to you at no charge by:
District of Columbia Public Schools
Office of Community Partnerships
825 North Capitol Street NE, 9th floor
Washington, DC 20002
202-442-5885
dcpspartnerships@dc.gov
Shereen Williams, Director
Luisa Paningbatan, Project Assistant
This organization is involved in sending out what I would call spam for a host or organizations. Looks like they may have been behind all the crap sent out by the Obama Administration asking for donations. Someone said on a site Obama hooked up with them in 2004 but I cannot find independent confirmation only someone’s comment.
I have websites that come up in google search that are no longer there.
They are sending out for a variety of US Government agencies now that Obama is in power — looks to be the spammer of choice:
This newsletter is funded by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and is also available on the EERE Web site. If you have questions or comments about this newsletter, please contact the editor.
Update your subscriptions, modify your password or e-mail address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your e-mail address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact support@govdelivery.com.
This service is provided to you at no charge by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE). Visit the Web site at http://www.eere.energy.gov.
This group cut a deal with the Department of Treasury to handle correspondence in 2007 after Paulson was named the Treasury Secretary in the summer of 2006. It looks like until Paulson was named, there was no push for GovDelivery.com to handle federal correspondence that I can find. If they do go back to 2004 with Obama it lends credibility to the fact the Dems controlled Paulson and he undercut McCain for Obama which IMO is true:
Federal Consulting Group and GovDelivery Partner to Improve Government-to- Citizen Communications
Monday, July 30th, 2007
WASHINGTON and SAINT PAUL, Minn., July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Government agencies looking for more efficient ways to share information with the public can now utilize GovDelivery’s industry-leading public communication solution as part of the Federal Consulting Group’s suite of services, according to a partnership announced today by FCG and GovDelivery.As part of the agreement, FCG, a franchise of the U.S. Department of Treasury, will offer GovDelivery’s Email and Digital Subscription Management solution to its Federal customers. GovDelivery, headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., is the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen digital communications. “FCG and GovDelivery share a mission: to help agencies communicate more quickly and effectively with their public audiences.
http://www.egovnews.org/?m=200707
I don’t know how all of this is going to end. Right now, it does not look good.
Just the precedences that are being are amazing.
When the people responsible for making and enforcing order start parading around with a cigarette in their mouth yelling “shut the f*** up!” The law applies to you, not to me!
Well, then America is lost.
Sorry sweetheart, I am not normally this gloomy, but damn, watching my country being ripped to shreds by someone who we don’t even know who he is or where he is from, hurts. It is Biblical.
It hurts a lot and why I brought my blog back to life, http://DemocratsforSale.blogspot.com and why I am now working on a website so that opposition research on Dem candidates can be put on line for the world to see how corrupt this bunch of Dems are and how they lie and charge Republicans are doing something when, in fact, they are behind the mess.
Was getting ready to post this information about and couldn’t get into the blog but my other two blogs had no problems.
This has made me even more irritated so I will be researching into more about GovDelivery.com — the pieces fit of why I received SPAM email from the DCCC when I have been been on their site. I am sure I am in some poliltical email database that these turkeys have in their possession.
The man in the WH is nothing but a fraud and a puppet of people who want to destroy this Country.
Our opt-in policy is required by a new federal privacy law that could cause us to be fined upon complaint.
This includes me sending out emails on pricing, new products and company info.
This appears to be a blatant disregard for their own federal rules.
That post you were referring to was in regards to the “Do Not Call” list ... and it has nothing to do with e-mail... :-)
But, if you’re interested in something to do with e-mail and the federal government you can look at ...
The CAN-SPAM Act: Requirements for Commercial Emailers
The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) establishes requirements for those who send commercial email, spells out penalties for spammers and companies whose products are advertised in spam if they violate the law, and gives consumers the right to ask emailers to stop spamming them.
The law, which became effective January 1, 2004, covers email whose primary purpose is advertising or promoting a commercial product or service, including content on a Web site. A “transactional or relationship message” – email that facilitates an agreed-upon transaction or updates a customer in an existing business relationship – may not contain false or misleading routing information, but otherwise is exempt from most provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation’s consumer protection agency, is authorized to enforce the CAN-SPAM Act. CAN-SPAM also gives the Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to enforce its criminal sanctions. Other federal and state agencies can enforce the law against organizations under their jurisdiction, and companies that provide Internet access may sue violators, as well.
[ ... ]
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/ecommerce/bus61.shtm
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And in terms of “opt-out” or “opt-in” ... you can see the following...
It requires that your email give recipients an opt-out method. You must provide a return email address or another Internet-based response mechanism that allows a recipient to ask you not to send future email messages to that email address, and you must honor the requests. You may create a “menu” of choices to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to end any commercial messages from the sender.
Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your commercial email. When you receive an opt-out request, the law gives you 10 business days to stop sending email to the requestor’s email address. You cannot help another entity send email to that address, or have another entity send email on your behalf to that address. Finally, it’s illegal for you to sell or transfer the email addresses of people who choose not to receive your email, even in the form of a mailing list, unless you transfer the addresses so another entity can comply with the law.
Your own company may have better rules to operate under than what is required by this particular law, and that would be good, but all of your own company’s policies for e-mail wouldn’t necessarily have to be followed by all other companies and/or e-mailers...
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You might also take a look at the following run-down and explanation of the Federal law and requirements...
The New Federal Spam Law: What Does It Mean for Associations?
EXECUTIVE UPDATE, February 2004
http://www.asaecenter.org/PublicationsResources/EUArticle.cfm?ItemNumber=11646
Also..., note the *result* of the Federal Law...
LAW BARRING JUNK E-MAIL ALLOWS A FLOOD INSTEAD
— “Can Spam legalized spamming itself,” said Steve Linford, the founder of the Spamhaus Project. —
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: February 1, 2005
A year after a sweeping federal antispam law went into effect, there is more junk e-mail on the Internet than ever, and Levon Gillespie, according to Microsoft, is one reason.
Lawyers for the company seemed well on the way to shutting down Mr. Gillespie last September after he agreed to meet them at a Starbucks in Los Angeles near the University of Southern California. There they served him a court summons and a lawsuit accusing him, his Web site and 50 unnamed customers of violating state and federal law - including the year-old federal Can Spam Act - by flooding Microsoft’s internal and customer e-mail networks with illegal spam, among other charges.
But that was the last the company saw of the young entrepreneur.
Mr. Gillespie, who operated a service that gives bulk advertisers off-shore shelter from the antispam crusade, did not show up last month for a court hearing in King County, Wash. The judge issued a default judgment against him in the amount of $1.4 million.
In a telephone interview yesterday from his home in Los Angeles, Mr. Gillespie, 21, said he was unaware of the judgment and that no one from Microsoft or the court had yet followed up. But he insisted that he had done nothing wrong and vowed that lawsuits would not stop him - nor any of the other players in the lucrative spam chain.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/technology/01spam.html
This from a “e-mail marketing outfit” — just to give you their “view” of the situation...
SPAM LAW COMPLIANCE
Internet Marketing Solutions encourages all of our customers to comply with the new USA federal law that went into effect on January 1, 2002 - 2007 referred to as the “Can Spam” law. If you follow a few simple guidelines (listed below), it is very easy to comply with this new law. This new law does not make bulk email illegal. In fact, many anti-spam organizations have complained that it actually legalizes unsolicited bulk email and will not curb the spam problem at all.
The “Can Spam” law provides a new set of guidelines to prevent practices such as using fraudulent or deceptive subject lines, forged return email addresses or hijacked mail server relays. The law also requires the bulk emailer to provide a valid unsubscribe option for remove requests (requests to have an email address removed from a mailing list).
A few of our customers have called recently and asked if the “Can Spam” law has outlawed bulk email marketing. The answer is “no”, it has not. Our products are guaranteed 100% compliant with the new USA federal “Can Spam” law that went into effect on January 1, 2002 - 2007. However, there is a right way and a wrong way to conduct a bulk email campaign. The software programs and free resources on this website will equip you with the tools and knowledge you need to legally succeed with mass email marketing. If you have a computer, an Internet connection and a willingness to learn, you can achieve the same results for your business or organization that the big Fortune 500 online companies are getting from bulk email marketing. You just have to do it according to the rules.
Our software programs are actually designed to help you comply with this new law. For example, our unique Prospect Remover software program automatically processes your remove requests, sparing you the time-consuming process of manually removing them one by one from your email address lists. After Prospect Remover receives your remove requests, you simply load the opt-out lists that it creates into Prospect Manager to remove the unsubscribers from your email marketing campaign lists.
The software programs and resources available on this website promote the use of responsible bulk email marketing. We encourage you to use these resources to conduct a bulk email campaign that complies with the new “Can Spam” law. Here are a few recommendations to make sure you are in compliance with the law:
- Always honor remove requests from your recipients.
- Never use forged or fraudulent return email addresses.
- Never use fraudulent or deceptive subject lines.
- Do not redirect email through hijacked mail server relays.
- Include a postal mail address in your emails.
Identify emails of an adult nature with the appropriate subject line.
http://www.marketing-2000.net/legal.htm
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