On 16-Jan-99 Michael Sondow wrote:
>> And let me tell you that a huge number of those people in the NSI database
>> will
>> level accusations of spam for doing such a thing.
>>
>> For NSI, or any organization, to do such a thing would be foolhardy, and
>> would
>> be unlikely to have any measurable result, especially balanced against the
>> administrative nightmare it would create with all the complaints and "What
>> is
>> this?" type emails it would generate.
>
> Maybe you're right. But InterNIC has the right to communicate with its
> registrants. It sends them notices and bills and such. Couldn't it notify
> them officially that a certain poll needed to be taken in order to determine
> certain future operating parameters of its registration operation? I don't
> see anything incorrect about a company polling its customers, do you?
You would think so.
I've had to deal with this issue first hand in the past, and all I can say is I
developed a very very dim view of the antispam activists as a result.
The position tends to be that if the company did not inform the customers they
were subject to receiving non-essential emails (which include bills) then it is
considered spam.
I am currently working on a set of terms of services and service agreements and
am adding language into it that lets the users know they are subject to
receiving such emails from us, and basically if they don't like it, don't do
business with us. And I'm not talking about advertisements for other services,
or letting others use our customer lists for marketing. Just things like
Monthly Service Updates, etc. I'm dotting and i's and crossing the t's on this
one.
The anti spam activists will turn against any cause that they feel was
promoting their cause via spam, regardless of how tenuous the allegation is,
and will be very vocal about it. There is no appeasing them once they get
going on this, and they feed on each other like a nasty virus.
And I am very anti-spam myself, but these groups are out of control. I had to
deal with them when I was Abuse Director at Monolith.
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E-Mail: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16-Jan-99
Time: 00:10:08
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