Friday, March 28, 2008

Yet another anti-spam tool

The new Canadian federal law coming into effect regarding mail and phone marketing is pretty toothless in that some types of agencies are exempt (eg charities) and the "existing business relationship" loophole basically means if you ever gave anyone in a suit a sideways glance they're allowed to phone you during dinner. If you go to http://ioptout.ca/ you can register and select from a list of companies/agencies in various categories and the site will automatically generate an opt-out email message to all your selections. The selection list is editable in a wiki so the list will explode in size very shortly I am sure. Most of the major offenders are already on there.

I wonder if they can make my son stop crying during dinner :)

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