It's not about commercial intent, but I feel it's about Bharat's idea of maintaining his personal space and the supposed control he has over it. Unfortunately, the control one may have on his or her private virtual space is the same as the space itself --virtual.
Subramani -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Abraham Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 1:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] spam from bookbol: Fw: Can you guess what thismailisallabout? Certainly, we are free to agree or disagree with the means Book bole is using to promote their services. They have used the auto subscription facility to make it easier for blind and visually impaired potential subscribers. If someone does not want to subscribe, they just need to unsubscribe. I do not believe that Book bole has any kind of commercial or vested interest in doing what they are doing. Regards, George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bharat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [AI] spam from bookbol: Fw: Can you guess what this mailisallabout? Dear sir, with due respect to your thoughts, i strongly beg to differ from you in the matter. whether or not someone would want to do good to me, i guess, i would rather not have an automated 'good' come my way. for example, in the same instance, while you don't mind being auto-subscribed to a list or a forum, i don't want it, even if it is for my good. i would definitely unsubscribe from their lists, however, by the shere logic of it all, i should be unsubscribed by the same mechanism by which i was subscribed!! again, please do not misunderstand me, i really don't mean any insult to any of the people here, however, i definitely express a very strong disagreement about the dubious practices of such llists & forums. compare bookbol with accessindia, while accessindia is also there for social & greater good of the blind, it does not send any promotional & unsolicited bulk & spam messages to promote itself & still, it has over more than a thousand members. i hope you would agree with me there? with kind regards to all, bharat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amiyo Biswas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [AI] spam from bookbol: Fw: Can you guess what this mail isallabout? Well, I also received an invitation from bookbole. Perhaps they got my name and email from Daisy forum. Since this is not a profit-making organisation and they are looking forward to serving our reading requirements, I rather welcome their initiative. Unless they collect some email addresses from old groups, how they can approach us? You had better write to them for stopping the mails to you. Best regards, Amiyo Biswas. Cell: 91-9433464329 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bharat Bhardwaj" <[email protected]> To: "Accessindia" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:30 PM Subject: [AI] spam from bookbol: Fw: Can you guess what this mail is allabout? hi all, before all of you become angry about the reason i am forwarding this mail to you, i would like to inform you right at the outset that for a long time now, i have been receiving unsolicitted emails in an astonomical number from bookbol. while the concept of this community seems to be good & something i have always advocated, at no point in time, have i subscribed to this community & the below mail is a clear violation of my personal space & privacy. the only intention behind sending this mail to accessindia is to alert you all about the auto-subscribe options of such communities & a clear violation of individual privacy. i have a lot more to say with regard to the practices, norms & privacy policy of this site, however, would just say that, any mass mail does not become a genuine intent just by adding a working or most of the times, a non-working unsubscribe link at the bottom of every message, a practice which has become quite common with regard to todays spam messages as well. i may, purely by will, decide to become a part of this community in future but i would urge upon all the administrators to refrain from any such auto-subscribe options to be incorporated in their practices. in the end, i sincerely appologies for having sent this mail across to accessindia yet again but i hope, my intention would be taken in the right spirit. with kind regards, bharat. 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