On 5/18/12 6:14 PM, Anne Wainwright wrote: > Hi, > > For the record the following URL is of interest > > http://www.spamhaus.org/consumer/definition/ > > This clearly makes the point that spam is defined by two factors > > "A message is Spam only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk" > > and being who they are their definition must carry some weight. In terms > of their definition my mailing was not spam. Still, and I think Stephen > made the point, there is also the consideration of good business > practice to be considered. > > over & out for tonight. > > Anne > I will point out that from the recipients point of view, a mailman invite looks to be "Bulk", they have no way to know if you sent it specifically to them or to a large list.
A place like spamhaus can use "bulk" as part of their criteria, and see if essentially the same message is sent out repeatedly, an individual recipient generally can not, so their version of the "bulk" criteria is does it look like a mass mailing. One way around this is rather than us the mailman invite feature, write a personal email where you "invite" the person to subscribe, giving the url of the subscription page as a pointer. While you can't prevent someone from pressing the "This is spam" button, if you have done some pre-vetting to be sure the person is likely interested, and made the message clearly personal and not bulk, will minimize the chances of them doing so. -- Richard Damon ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
