{"id":2385,"date":"2004-01-03T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-03T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2021-06-01T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T01:15:12","slug":"opt-out-out-in-opt-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/03\/opt-out-out-in-opt-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Opt Out, Out In, Opt <i>This<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/techbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; The CAN SPAM act has been law since Thursday, and it&#8217;s obvious our Congress has done its usual bang-up job of lawmaking. Back last year I would get around three hundred e-mails a day, maybe twenty of which were legitimate messages. And today, now that the new law has been passed, I&#8217;m getting around three hundred e-mails a day, maybe twenty of which are legitimate messages.  So kudos to you, Representatives and Senators. Take a bow. You deserve it. Give yourselves another pay raise.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The only upside to this is that since so many government officials have their own e-mail addresses, they might be able to see for themselves how impotent their law is.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The CAN SPAM act has been law since Thursday, and it&#8217;s obvious our Congress has done its usual bang-up job of lawmaking. Back last year I would get around three hundred e-mails a day, maybe twenty of which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/03\/opt-out-out-in-opt-this\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}