Newsletter publishers beware! Web publishing firms BlueStream Media and BVWebTies, which produce bobvila.com, are charged with violating the new act by sending the bobvila.com email newsletter to Hypertouch and its customers.
Hypertouch claims that the emails had no physical address, which is now legally required, and used fraudulent headers - the field that usually identifies the sender.
Hypertouch also alleges that the publishers sent email to randomly generated and harvested addresses, including addresses that had unsubscribed from other email lists.
Both BlueStream Media and BVWebTies have strongly denied the claim, publishing statements on their websites.
