On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:23:48PM -0500, Nick Simicich wrote:
> 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".
Absolutely correct. This is well down the slippery slope to the completely
unethical and indefensible tactics that spammers use.
> 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.
YES! Of course, since they're doing this to profit off the hard (and
almost entirely volunteer) work of list managers WITHOUT compensating
them for it financially, I suspect that they'll do what's profitable
rather than what's right.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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