{"id":310,"date":"2005-08-23T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/microsoft-speaks-out-against-kiwi-anti-spam-bill\/"},"modified":"2005-08-23T08:41:13","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T12:41:13","slug":"microsoft-speaks-out-against-kiwi-anti-spam-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/microsoft-speaks-out-against-kiwi-anti-spam-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft speaks out against Kiwi anti-spam bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft spokesperson Ryan Hamlin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>says the New Zealand Government&#8217;s Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill is &#8220;too broad&#8221; and could impinge on &#8220;the amazing vehicle of e-mail marketing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also wants definitions in the bill changed so that companies would be able to e-mail information about new products and services to customers, even if they had opted out of receiving e-mail about other services they had bought from the company in the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that sounds reasonable. So for a company that sells more than one single product, the customer would have to opt out of spam for each one individually. They&#8217;ll also have to stay on their toes because the company might start selling something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft spokesperson Ryan Hamlin: says the New Zealand Government&#8217;s Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill is &#8220;too broad&#8221; and could impinge on &#8220;the amazing vehicle of e-mail marketing&#8221;. He also wants definitions in the bill changed so that companies would be able to e-mail information about new products and services to customers, even if they had opted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idiotic","category-politics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}