On Monday 24 May 2004 12:23 pm, robin wrote: > > Well, spam filters don't yank accounts, ISP's do after they have received > > complaints by recipients that someone is sending out spam from their > > system. I was cautioning him before he gives advice on how to send out > > mass mailings to make sure that they have permission from the recipients. > > Or inevitably, complaints will follow and accounts will be cancelled, or > > IP's will get blacklisted. Usually fairly swiftly. > > Ah right, I see what you mean. However, I doubt if any of the people on > this particular list would complain to the ISP, they'd just mail him.
Well, if I were to receive email from someone talking to me about a high-school reunion that I did not solicit and who did not ask my permission before they began sending mail to my email address, I would likely complain to the ISP about receiving spam. That does beg the question of how my email address was obtained, but obtaining an email address is not the same as obtaining permission to send email to that address. If the To: line showed more than 50 recipients, along with my own email address, broadcast to every person on that list, I would positively complain to the ISP about receiving spam. Most ISP's have policies against mass mailing, definitely have policies against unsolicited mass-mailing and in most cases will cancel a user account rather than risk being labeled spam-friendly. In any group of 200+ people, you have to expect that at least a few would be heartless net-nazi's like me. ;-} -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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