Re: [exim] OT: Re: multi-stage fallback

Ian P. Christian wrote:
> 2009/2/3 Richard Pitt <richard@???>:
>> Yeah - every time I do any work on the systems I have to have a shower -
>> but hey, its money ;)
>
> I am personally on a few legitimate email marketing lists, I don't
> think there's anything overly wrong with it. If I want to know when a
> new X is out from Y, then I'll sign up for their list. I'm sure
> company Y send out mail to 10's of thousands, perhaps hundreds of
> recipients mass commercial emails != spamming - it never has and
> never will IMO. I don't think anyone can really argue a point against
> it, so don't feel the need to shower after - unless they are pushing
> viagra!
>

Ah - 'semantics'.

Mea Culpa.

I don't actually consider Borders Books, Safeway supermarkets, several
airlines that I use often, and my banks - all of which are lists I am on
voluntarily - to be email 'marketing'.

IOW not 'reaching out' in search of new markets or customers-to-be.

Membership (of a virtual affinity group, say avid readers) or (regular)
customer fulfillment would be more accurate, IMHO.

In global terms these might qualify as 'mass' - but I see typically one
message a month - or sometimes only one per quarter - from each of them.

That said, one often has to opt-out in more than one 'place', for the
more aggressive ones, major bank or not.

'If your mailer cannot display html ...

[you are too intelligent to be one of *our* customers]

:-(