The anti-spam bill introduced last week is not as good for direct marketers as some thought at first blush.
For one thing, it seems to recognize the Internet Service Providers as private networks, not common carriers, giving them broad power to block e-mail.
In effect, the bill allows the ISPs to say, “E-mailers have no rights to deliver e-mail across our network,” said Ben Isaacson, former executive director of AIM and head of Isaacson Consulting.
In addition, the proposed Federal Trade Commission report on enforcement is too narrowly focused on the U.S., Isaacson continued. “This is not a U.S. problem, it
