Groovy hepcat Craig Sanders via luv-main was jivin' on Wed, 21 Jan 2026. Re: Electron Workshop?'s a coolscene! Dig it.
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 12:12:39PM +1100, Alexar Pendashteh wrote: > > You received the email because you are subscribed to luv-announce > > mailing list. > > Right. I subscribed to luv-announce, not to Electron Workshop's list. > > This really shouldn't need to be said to anyone in the linux > community, but apparently it does now: > > ADDING SOMEONE TO A MAILING LIST WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT IS SPAM. Hear hear! > I did not give permission to Electron Workshop to add me to their > list and I did not give permission to LUV to give my email address to > any third party. > > You may not think this is important but it is. The single most > important factor in the definition of spam is consent. If you ask for > or consent to receive email then it is not can not be spam. But if > you did not ask for or consent then it IS spam and can never be > anything other than spam. Quite right. [Snip.] > > To summarise, the email you have received is the luv-announce list > > with a new look and feel. You receive emails because you are > > subscribed to that and > > Nothing in the spam I received mentioned luv-announce. Not the > headers, not the message body, nothing. Nor was there any prior > notice about luv-announce being terminated and a new list being > created. Right! There was no clue who this new mob is, so how the hell are we supposed to know? [Snip.] > > you can easily use the unsubscribe link in the very same emails, if > > you need to. > > "You can opt-out after being spammed" is not a valid response. It is > exactly what all spammers say. Opt-out does not scale and, as It's worse than that. The spam I got didn't even have an "unsubscribe" link. How can we use links that aren't there? [Snip.] -- Dig the sig! _-/~~~~~~/\ |---------- [email protected] ----------| ////| /^^\ |-----------------------------------------------| ||||||\ |()()|___ | name Peter Haywood | | |||||||| | _---6|9- | alias Shaggy | Remove .NOSPAM to reply | |||||||| |/ \_/| | alias Wolvaen | | |||||||| | A | | alias HEY YOU! | | |||||||| | (===/\\/ |-----------------------------------------------| \||||/ /------\|/ | Dig my groovy web page! | """" " | http://alphalink.com.au/~phaywood/ | - Aint I'm a Dawg! --|--------------- Shaggy was here! --------------| (This sig best viewed with a fixed pitch font.) _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
