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NONE: Re: ONLINE ADS>> Controlled emailing
Re: ONLINE ADS>> Controlled emailing
Ryan Scott (rscott_at_netcreations.com)
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:51:42 +0000
> At 03:09 PM 3/26/97 +0000, Ryan Scott wrote:
>
> >Keith: I guarantee you, that as your internal list grows, you will
> >absolutely get people on that list (somehow) who will claim you are
> >spamming them. Even though you will know absolutely that you are
> >not. Guaranteed. And it will be a small amount, you'll reason,
> >because it will be, in relation to the size of the list. Then
> >you'll understand.
>
> Ryan is right about this. At my site their is a paragraph that
> explains what the list is used for ABOVE the subscription form.
> After people fill in the form and submit it, they're mailed a
> confirmation. They must see this within a day of subscribing, but
> still some manage to forget that they subscribed and send me an
> angry message. It'd be funny if it wasn't such a pain.
I'd laugh but it hurts.
> There are many people lobbying for legislation to outlaw spam email
> in the same way that fax spamming was a few years ago. If such a law
> was passed, even legimate lists might be closed down because a few
> people (wrongly) accusing you of spamming would be enough to make
> operating the list untenable.
That's a legitimate concern. Personally though, I see no other way
around it. Unsolicited mail will be legislated. I'm personally
getting probably 20 messages per day, totally unsolicited.
Responding makes it *worse*. Now today I get some angry person
sending me mail about a spam they received that did NOT COME FROM US.
But the bozo who sent this spam copied part of our header.
It basically said
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THIS IS NO SPAM. WE"VE SENT THIS MAIL TO EVERYONE IN THE WORLD..
blah blah, BUT YOU"LL GET IT ONLY ONE TIME SO UNSUBSCRIBING IS
USELESS, etc.
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Clearly this WAS a spam. The entire header, except for the part
that said it was not a spam, explained that it was. The problem
here is this criminal has copied part of our header (the THIS IS NO
SPAM part) making us seem some how guilty by association.
I do not believe in restricting people's freedoms. However the
brazen harrassment, the complete disregard for both business ethics
and common sense will force the government to put serious
restrictions on spammers activities. Spamford may wish to fight for
his 'right to spam', however his obnoxious f***-the-world attitude
will not help him legitimize his activities. No one but the other
slobbering bottom feeders will side with such a Jaba-The-Hutt
character.
______________________________________________________________________
Ryan Scott - rscott_at_netcreations.com - 718 522 1531
- Reinventing Direct Marketing on the Net -
NetCreations, Inc - http://www.netcreations.com/
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