On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:20:08PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > The problem is that many people consider 'spammish' to be any e-mail that > they don't want to see now that was sent from any business, even if they > asked for it at some point in the past.
This is key. Many Engineers have a very legalistic definition of spam, having to do with who signed up; and yeah, those definitions are good- certainly, if it's not double opt-in, it's almost certainly spam. But even if it is double opt in, sending people messages that are not properly targeted is just rude; if people agree to receive messages from you and then they get stuff that doesn't look like what they agreed to? they aren't going to spend the time figuring out if they really agreed to it or not; they are going to toss it with the spam, and to expect them to do otherwise is irrational. Granted; this has a lot more to do with the content of the message than where it's sent from, but especially things like funny reply-to addresses can make a big difference. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
