One of the questions asked for permission to send the subscriber advertising or promotional material that was related to the publication's editorial content. Our policies require that each message has the list owner's name, and that each message contains a clear method on how to unsubscribe. The Email Channel has spent tens of thousands of dollars developing systems to insure that consumers receiving material distributed by our Company can remove themselves with a minimum of inconvenience. Major Marketers are not the Spammers Branded Marketers are more afraid of Email Direct Marketing than is commonly believed. The spammers are not the Fortune 5000 companies.
Branded marketers have more to lose by offending the Internet consumer than they have to gain.
It should be a crime to impersonate another person's or company's Email address or domain. It should be illegal to impersonate another person or entity. A common practice among spammers is to mimic an Email address or domain to avoid the wrath of the recipients of the spamming messages. This theft is fraud and can inflict considerable economic damage on the owner of that Email address or domain. Spammers will just mail from foreign shores.