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Home 18 May 2008 CAN SPAM and Affiliate Mailer Opt-Out Email Many online businesses use affiliates to drum up business. The affiliate finds a lead somewhere, passes it to the business, and gets a commission if the lead turns into a sale. Web based affiliates are relatively uncontroversial, but affiliates who advertise by e-mail are a chronic problem due to their propensity to send spam, both spam as normally defined and as defined by CAN SPAM. Is it possible to do legitimate e-mail affiliate marketing? Maybe. See more ... posted at: 23:08 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/affwash.trackback

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