[Scspamcop] Re: hillary clinton campaign spam

[Twayne]

> geekyguy wrote:
>> I'm receiving these campaign support requests at an email address
>> that was somehow harvested or obtained against my will.
>
> The U.S. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 exempts political speech and, therefore,
> bulk email sent by politicians.

Can you cite a source for that information please?
I'd like to verify that information about exempting political speech 
because I don't think it says that.  It's the first I've heard of it and 
visits to the CFR and, among a couple of other links such as:

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ187.108.pdf

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/canspam.html

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/rules.htm

and
http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/15C103.txt

seem to have nothing that says that.

I could also offer a plethora of Google links, none of which verify 
either where "verification" means either written by a gvt agency/person 
or trackable to same.

I am not saying there is no such source; I am asking what that source 
is.

There is no such thing as "force-subscribed".
Without seeing the e-mail it's not even possible to decide whether it 
met the can-spam act or not.  There is more to it than just content, 
which is one of the worst ways to tell what spam is, IMO.

>
> It is almost always true that one does not want to unsubscribe from a
> list they never subscribed to in the first place. However if I were
> receiving this - which is legitimately from the HC campaign - I would
> try to unsub first and report them only if the unwanted emails
> continue.

Irrelevant.

N E V E R  unsubscribe to anything you didn't subscribe to.  By 
definition it is impossible to unsubscribe from something one has not 
subscribed to.

Like I said, I'm not saying it doesn't exist; but if it does, I haven't 
seen it, and would like to see it for verification purposes.  I suspect 
you may be a victim of an "interpretation" rather than what the rules & 
regs actually say.  It's easy to interpret things one way or another, 
especially with gvt talk, unless you have the entire subject context to 
check through.  It can not be done in one sentence or even in one 
paragraph from my experience.

Regards,

Twayne