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Post #52,136
by ben_tilly
9/17/02 11:58:43 PM
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New Read your spam
How often does the forged from line pretend to be from someone you would be inclined to trust.

If the forged from is not a major selling point, then that forgery isn't actionable by the FTC description of what they look for. It isn't material to the ad, and so that untruth matters no more than the lie in an ad which shows an SUV of similar size to a mountain.

Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
Post #52,310
by drewk
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9/19/02 9:47:07 AM
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New Oh, I forgot
It isn't material to the ad, and so that untruth matters no more than the lie in an ad which shows an SUV of similar size to a mountain.
"Truth in advertising" only applies to things that obviously aren't supposed to be taken literally. Like the Harrier that Pepsi offered to give away in the Pepsi Points debacle a couple of years ago. So now, "Oh come one, you didn't think I really meant it, did you?" is a legitimate defense.
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     Washington State anti-spam law upheld - (ben_tilly) - (8) - Sept. 14, 2002, 01:47:49 PM EDT
         fight SPAM with the FTC? - (SpiceWare) - (7) - Sept. 14, 2002, 08:20:21 PM EDT
             I don't think that that works :-( - (ben_tilly) - (6) - Sept. 14, 2002, 08:36:53 PM EDT
                 I disagree - (drewk) - (4) - Sept. 16, 2002, 09:42:16 AM EDT
                     You are shifting the situation - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 16, 2002, 07:17:12 PM EDT
                         Not really - (drewk) - (2) - Sept. 17, 2002, 10:03:44 AM EDT
                             Read your spam - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 17, 2002, 11:58:43 PM EDT
                                 Oh, I forgot - (drewk) - Sept. 19, 2002, 09:47:07 AM EDT
                 From somebody in Washington... - (inthane-chan) - Sept. 16, 2002, 11:07:45 AM EDT

Jane! Jane, get me off this crazy thing!
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