Comment Input & Public Comment...!...? (Score 1) 243
Three (3) week period of public comment? Eighty-nine (89) total public comments?
Where was everybody??
I don't think I need to mention how many comments are posted to slashdot every...say, hour.
Maybe the FTC designed a well-thought-out regulation with expert input into the technical requirements of the rule. Maybe they stress tested those technical measures designed to control the industry whose participant's primary work duty is to find ways to weasel / sleeze-el around anti-spam efforts. And maybe we all don't have any responsibility to provide a little input on a regulation that potentially places technical (see the "brown paper wrapper") and content controls (loosely-speaking) like motion pictures have, onto pervasive personal communication. Now, I haven't yet read the full text of the regulation, (just the FTC notice/release) or the 89 public comments (mostly by private citizens) but does anyone else still see potential for both unenforcibility and abuse? (Note the "valid physical postal address" requirements, and what defines "SEXUALLY EXPLICIT" spam and then falls under the various controls....)
From a quick search of stories, from the front pages search and my swiss-cheese memory, I don't see the this story posted before the end of public comment on the rules. Rrgh. While I'm not usually particularly vocal or active on these issues, I'm as guilty as anyone else in missing this FTC RFC, but... does anyone else see a big collective OOOPS here? 89 total public comments?
Where was everybody?
Where was everybody??
I don't think I need to mention how many comments are posted to slashdot every...say, hour.
Maybe the FTC designed a well-thought-out regulation with expert input into the technical requirements of the rule. Maybe they stress tested those technical measures designed to control the industry whose participant's primary work duty is to find ways to weasel / sleeze-el around anti-spam efforts. And maybe we all don't have any responsibility to provide a little input on a regulation that potentially places technical (see the "brown paper wrapper") and content controls (loosely-speaking) like motion pictures have, onto pervasive personal communication. Now, I haven't yet read the full text of the regulation, (just the FTC notice/release) or the 89 public comments (mostly by private citizens) but does anyone else still see potential for both unenforcibility and abuse? (Note the "valid physical postal address" requirements, and what defines "SEXUALLY EXPLICIT" spam and then falls under the various controls....)
From a quick search of stories, from the front pages search and my swiss-cheese memory, I don't see the this story posted before the end of public comment on the rules. Rrgh. While I'm not usually particularly vocal or active on these issues, I'm as guilty as anyone else in missing this FTC RFC, but... does anyone else see a big collective OOOPS here? 89 total public comments?
Where was everybody?
