On Thursday 06 September 2007 16:50, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Darton Williams wrote:
> >> It's not spam if you sign up for it.
> >
> > It is if you sign up with a company that already spams. That's why the
> > sketchier the company, the better. The best are those companies that
> > aggregate advertising; all they really do is sell your address to
> > spammers.
>
> If you agree to let them e-mail you, then it's not spam.
I was about to say the same, but then I thought some more. Strictly speaking
it's not unsolicited, even if they don't employ confirmed (closed-loop)
opt-in, when as a matter of fact you did ask for it. But in practice what
matters is that you get a good assortment of junk (unless you run a public
anti-spam service with stricter requirements). However, lack of confirmed
opt-in is enough to call someone a spammer according to
http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html, and to be sure one can always
subscribe and then immediately unsubscribe.
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