Jun 22, 2010
Calif. Justices Say Junk E-Mail Messages Don’t Violate Anti-Spam Law
Those e-mail messages offering good credit rates from several seemingly independent sources? They might be annoying, but they’re not illegal, a unanimous California Supreme Court has ruled. “An e-mail with an accurate and traceable domain name,” the opinion stated, “makes no affirmative representation or statement of fact that is false,” even if the messages were intended to bypass spam filters.