Hi, This has been considered illegal by the Landgericht Berlin: > Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list > Mailman-Users > > We have received a request from [IP address] for subscription of your > email address, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", to the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. [...] This court decided (search Google for "16 O 515/02") that it is considered to be "unwanted advertisement" (UCE, SPAM) if a businessman gets a mail in which he is asked whether he wants to be subscribed to a newsletter. It would be the task of the newsletter administrator to prove that the other person really _wanted_ to subscribe. Similar rights could be used for private persons, so this affects indeed all mailing lists / newsletters.
Should this judgement be shared by other german courts, newsletter admins using mailman or any similar software would have to fear a wave of dissuasions. Best regards Michael Kallas -- All thoughts are free, Who can ever guess them? Die Gedanken sind frei, Wer kann sie erraten? ______________________________________________________________________________ Angst vor Viren? Nicht bei WEB.DE FreeMail. Hier k�nnen Sie jeden Dateianhang auf Viren pr�fen. http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021157 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
