If my list is already on their server and they have not asked me for
permission to do this, then this looks a lot like the:
>If you don't want to get spammed by us any more, reply to this address
>with REMOVE in the subject
that spammers typically use. I consider the subscription info to be almost
as important as the list info. Having it published means that I have to
change it to keep it in sync, so I've never done that. Did someone do it
for me? I doubt that they would have used the info file from the more or
less defunct list, "best-of-diabetic".
I exchanged e-mail with Vince, and I looked at what data that topica had
for which of the lists I run. I'm convinced that at some point, one of
the databases he bought was based on gleaning info files and so forth from
Majordomo.
His argument is that I should be talking to the folks who sold him the
databases. My counter argument is that a spammer could say, "I bought your
e-mail address on a CD with a zillion others. Go forth and find the CD
sellers, that is who your complaint is with." That does not fly either.
I think that ethically, they should stop using the data until they can
discover which data was not voluntarialy submitted, and get back to the
company that sold them that data and find out what the heck is going on.
Because if they believe that all this data was submitted and not gleaned, I
think that they are wrong.
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