By: Brian J. Meli
The practice of sending unsolicited emails en masse to prospective customers goes almost all the way back to the dawn of the digital age. But federal regulations governing the practice have only been around for about a decade. The CAN-SPAM Act, or The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act, in unacronoymed form, was passed in 2003 in an effort to harmonize a patchwork of inconsistent state laws and bring order to an increasingly chaotic practice. Continue reading
