Is egroups encouraging their listowners to spam?
Their FAQ on promoting lists says this:
Promoting Your E-Mail Group
Here are our top tips on how to increase membership in your e-mail group:
[...]
Post to Newsgroups. Invite subscriptions, when appropriate, in
Usenet groups or e-mail lists. Be careful! Invitations can be
considered spam if not "on topic" or without respect to the policies
of each group. You can also invite individual posters based on
their specific message topics.
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 26
>19:52:27 1999
> Date: 27 Jan 1999 01:51:57 -0000
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by eGroups.com
> Precedence: list
> From: "eGroups User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Please join [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> This is the eGroups.com service.
>
> The moderator of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] group would like to
> invite you to join the group. To join, YOU MUST REPLY to this
> message.
>
> If you join, you can read group messages in your e-mail in-box or on
> the Web.
[...]
> To accept this invitation, please use the "Reply" function of your
> e-mail program and send back a blank message.
>
> Or you can accept by going to this Web location:
>
> http://www.egroups.com/subscribe?list=teletubbies-merchandise&vcode=1f643
>
> If you do not wish to join, please just ignore this invitation.
>
> If you have questions, please feel free to contact the moderator of
> this group at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit
>
> http://www.egroups.com/info/help.html
>
> Thanks!
>
> The eGroups.com Team
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