Totally agree…. folks who contact me out of the blue I always ask where they got my contact information (and I use my personal email address for this list)
Some answer NANOG list … which is a bad answer and the worst one I get sometimes is my contact information from PeeringDB - which had for a long time a disclaimer on the homepage that if you use the contact information from their site and someone finds out they would publicly “name and shame” them :) > On Nov 3, 2016, at 4:31 PM, Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Guys, > > While Chuck can speak more authoritatively to this subject, my take it is > that is a no-no. Chuck certainly can do that as this is his list. I pay > Amazon service fees and gladly manage the list for Free, but even I don't use > the email list for marketing. > > Chuck has allowed vendors that have been loyal to him over the years to post > advertisements, and that seems the more acceptable way to reach people on the > list. If you notice, a lot of people have a specific email address for this > list (and/or others) for a reason. They know when you are spamming them, and > that usually doesn’t earn the vendor a positive perception. > > So, except for the really good Spam that would make us laugh, like "How to > increase your mortgage by 2 inches offered by the prince of Nigeria" I would > suggest the answer would be NO. > > /2cents complete from the List manager dude (shameless Plug below) > > LOL J > > Paul McCall > PDMNet, Inc. > www.pdmnet.com <http://www.pdmnet.com/> > AFMUG List manager > Florida Broadband WISP Owner > ** Friend of Chuck McCown ** > Equipment Repair Services > Surplus Equipment sales > "The Honey badger of wireless equipment repairs" > Equal Opportunity Employer > Wireless Technology Consultant > Freelance Jazz Musician > Asharp Recording Studios > 877-PDMNet1 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On > Behalf Of Ivan Kohler > Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 2:34 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [AFMUG] Animal Farm group policy on vendors harvesting email > addresses from list > > Hi, > > I'm writing to ask if AFMUG has a policy on vendors who harvest email > addresses from the mailing list for spamming. > > WISPA does not allow vendors to do this, while conversely (and surprisingly), > FISPA allows its vendors to do this. > > Does the group consider this practice acceptable? Chuck, Paul? > > -- > Ivan Kohler, President and Head Geek, Freeside Internet Services, Inc. > Open-source billing, ticketing and provisioning - http://www.freeside.biz/ > <http://www.freeside.biz/>
