>> The people at those addresses *asked* you to send material to those
>> addresses, so it's clearly not trespass.
>
>some people don't pay too much attention. I've been getting
>officious, snotty cease and desist letters from various agencies for
>years, on requested subscriptions. Coast Guard bases are really
>notable for this. Some mid-admin gets a burr up their nose and starts
>snooping for "non professional" use of the mail systems, and starts
>sending out letters.
I've seen yet another variation on this. Sites that recycle usernames,
particularly common at schools it seems. User X s*bscribes to my list
and never uns*bscribes even though he no longer has the account. Next
year user Y gets assigned the same account and is befuddled by all the
incoming mail. "I never asked for this" is in this case a true statement.
I've gotten the snotty cease and desist letter from the site's almost
equally befuddled sysadmin who is certain his user is the victim of a
s*bscribe forgery. When I write back that this was their fault for
recycling user names and include a copy of the original user's s*bscribe
request with a year old date attached it seems to work an amazing
attitude transformation.
-Mitch
