Le 2010-02-21 à 05:17, Jack Nutting a écrit : > Ridiculous. I know spam, I get truckloads of it every day. A spammer > is someone who sends you email in backhanded ways, typically from a > false email address through a botnet, and there's no way in hell to > get yourself off their list, or even contact them. PrMac is definitely > not spamming.
I'm probably going to regret responding to this, but I have to say: that's a pretty narrow definition of spam. Ultimately, for most people, spam is "commercial mail I didn't ask for or want". Arguably, that can include personal email as well (cf. endless bulk forwards containing jokes, funny photos, etc. from friends), but I'd rather leave that can of worms alone for now. I can't comment on prmac's methodolgy, as I've never used their service (for a number of reasons not worth going into here), but a *lot* of PR companies tend to scattershot their emails to anyone they think might be even vaguely interestede in the contents. I think a major problem with prmac is the lack of any anti-spam policy, which almost all other email services have. See Campaign Monitor's anti-spam page for a good, clear explanation of their policy: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/anti-spam/ There's also <http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html>. The crux of this is that it should *never* be recipient's responsibility to prove that they signed up to receive emails, and if they complain or want out, there should be a clear and straight-foward way for them to opt out. Michael Arrington's word isn't worth much these days, but if any of the correspondance he posted is true, it's pretty suspect if prmac isn't providing this clear way for recipients to opt out. It doesn't matter if your product involves body part "enhancements" or indie software; the product is immaterial. If a user no longer wants to receive email from you, but you don't provide an out, and keep sending them email, it's spam. Neil
