Questions tagged [email]
Questions relating to the law as it applies to email
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Linux Foundation, Russian maintainers and sanctions on Russia
On Friday, Oct. 18th, 2024, the senior Linux1 maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who works at the Linux Foundation, removed a number of Russian Linux maintainers from a file which lists them, citing "...
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Laws regarding NON-commercial email messages
The CAN-SPAM Act applies only to "commercial electronic email messages", which it defines in §7702.2 as (emphasis mine):
The term ‘‘commercial electronic mail message’’ means any electronic ...
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I forgot to BCC people in music promotion email [closed]
I am a small musician promoting a new song but forgot to put the recipients of a promotional email as BCC (I got the emails off of my presave list). One person has emailed me concerned about their ...
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Are email “confidentiality clauses” binding? [duplicate]
Sometimes, I receive emails for other people. Some of them have a clause at the bottom that says, “If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please delete it and inform the sender ...
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Can your school ban you from sending e-mails? [closed]
My school has banned every student from sending e-mails to each other. I'm not sure if this is a thing that schools are allowed to do or not, but I feel that they shouldn't be able to. Our school is ...
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Can I send someone an email that they are not licensed to download or copy?
This answer suggests that emails usually come with an implied license to do things like download them to your computer, copy them from your old server to a new replacement server, etc.
What if I sent ...
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Is there any chance I could get in legal trouble if I respond to a job rejection email like this?
“Good morning,
Thank you for your application for our Entry Level Sales Position. We appreciate your interest in joining our company (NO YOU DON'T, OR YOU WOULD HAVE HIRED ME), and we are pleased that ...
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Is there an email directory of police departments and sheriffs offices for submitting FOI requests?
I have been doing research related to FOI (Freedom of Information) fees and itemized invoices in particular. In this effort I have been contacting a number of departments and offices (ideally all) in ...
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Onlyfans account leaked to my family [duplicate]
I have an OnlyFans account which for obvious reasons I kept secret from everyone. But somehow someone has leaked its content (perhaps a friend or an ex-partner who wanted to take a revenge on me). He/...
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Could the act of emailing publicly available information be deemed illegal?
Andy and Mary are friends. Andy discovers that Mary is secretly working as an escort. Nobody knows about this activity beyond Andy. He tries to convince her that escorting is harmful and will have a ...
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Can the government force spammers to disclose how they got my e-mail address?
My impression is that a large proportion of unsolicited email marketing (SPAM) originates because the recipient willingly provides their address in the course of a desired interaction with a second-...
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Is it legal for a company to require you to delete your account to unsubscribe from marketing emails?
I'm subscribed to "Visual Studio Dev Essentials" (so that I can download older versions of Visual Studio from the Microsoft website), but they are sending me unwanted marketing emails ...
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Is it legal for one email service provider to send emails using the exact identical email address of another email service provider? [closed]
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Is it legal for one email service provider to send emails using the exact identical email address of another email service provider?
This happened to me in the last 3 days. The two ...
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How to conserve legal value of email after leaving organization and thus losing access to email account?
I'm leaving an institution I've been working for. I received notice that my institutional email account will be shut down in some months. That is just Gmail hidden behind a non-Gmail address, i.e. ...
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Publicly sharing information obtained over e-mail (no NDA)
For data analysis purposes, I would like to request an offer / overview of product features with various companies, posing as a prospecting customer over e-mail.
I would like to analyse this data and ...
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