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Omega World Travel has challenged this article (see their attorneys' letter below). TIME regrets characterizing Omega and its subsidiary as "spammers" without making it clear that "spammer" is merely an allegation by Mumma and that the company's e-mails had complied with federal anti-spam laws...
Imagine that a message plops unbidden into your e-mail In box. Imagine that 10 just like it soon follow, all with a fake return address, none from a name you recognize. You take umbrage. You let it be known on your website that the sender is a scurrilous spammer, a clogger of In boxes, a violator of the right to privacy. It is a small gesture yet one you believe is important in the war on spam, and besides, it makes you feel good...
...spats over spam can get messy. The recipient's privacy comes into play, but so does the sender's free speech. What states call spam the feds may consider innocuous commercial e-mail. And when spam rage takes over, you, like Mumma, can get sued for calling a spammer a spammer...
Time's article titled A Spammer's Revenge (Jan. 15) by Reynolds Holding, is stunningly irresponsible and defames our clients, Omega World Travel, Inc., and its subsidiary, Cruise.com, Inc., who are falsely identified as "spammers" in that article...
...lobbying power that its originators seem to possess. A new law that went into effect early this year has made certain forms of unwanted e-mail communication illegal—now all spam needs to be opt-out (there must be some way to let a would-be spammer know that you’d like no further communication from them) and certain guidelines have been set regarding the use of misleading subject lines. Some have called the bill inadequate, arguing that it doesn’t actually prohibit anyone from sending out spam, but surely it?...