Sometimes law gets away from reality. So how would someone confirm a subscription if it's illegal to email them before they confirm it?
- Stoney On 12/6/02 3:29 AM, "Michael Kallas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
