There are two problems. 1) It is not possible for the recipient to distinguish between a highly targeted reasonable mail drop and a wholesale spam the world that claims to be targeted. Thus to the recipient you like _look_ like an evil bloodsucking scum-ball.
2) The typical ISP's Term's Of Service these days state explicit that spam is "Unsolicited Commercial Email". Note the absence of any proviso's about "Targeted", "Limited scope" etc. Thus if any of those recipients bounce your mail to your ISP, your ISP will be quite within their rights to drop you like a hot stone and blacklist you. Thus were does that leave you? The only answer is you must pay for the time and bandwidth you are consuming by contributing to a service that the user cares about. Advertise/donate on/to appropriate web sites, buy google words etc. etc. On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Ok all, I have some thought provoking spam related questions for you. > > Our company just began offering a new service (business to business) > that could be very useful to others in our industry. SO, I looked up > these types of businesses in the online yellow pages and then went to > their websites and got an email address and then emailed them all, one > by one, by hand, to advise of this new service and the reseller program > we had to go with it in case they were interested. > > Now, that mailout was technically SPAM (unsolicited, bulk email). > However, how is that different to a fax attack or a P.O. Box drop (both > legal everywhere and both do not have the negative implications of spam) > except that it was more targeted, which it could be argued is better > than the other 2 above methods! > > I hate spam as much as the next guy but one of the reasons I would hate > to see it legislated (instead of letting it be dealt with through > technology) is that there is such a varied definition for it. Plus, what > keeps it being moved to being sent from some other less legislated > country or to a country without the resources to enforce said > legislation even if they have it. I think spam is a problem here to stay > and realistically, all those who want it legislated IMHO are not taking > into account governments (ALL) track record of not generally > implementing wise and enforceable legislation. > > Cheers > > Jason > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on your system.
