On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 21:50 -0800, Jeff Chan wrote:
> Yes and no. If you sign up for Joe's Bagel Company mailing list
> to find out about the latest Bagel news, and some new marketing
> guy joins the Bagel company and starts sending marketing messages
> about Bananas to that list, then the origin
On Thursday, January 20, 2011, 1:31:50 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 1/20/2011 4:17 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> When you sign up for a company's email list, you get whatever they
> decide to send you. If they decide to start sending marketing to the
> list, I would not consider that spam because t
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:31:50 -0500
Bowie Bailey wrote:
> When you sign up for a company's email list, you get whatever they
> decide to send you.
OK. I guess we'll agree to disagree on our definitions, then.
Regards,
David.
On 01/20/2011 11:31 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
Public discussion lists are bit different. In that case, it is the
individual post that is being considered spam rather than considering
the list spammy. Since there is no overall control over the content of
the posts, public lists are vulnerable to
On 1/20/2011 4:17 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:12:58 -0500
> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
>> Of course it is. You subscribed to it. If you don't want it anymore,
>> unsubscribe.
> I disagree. When you subscribe to a list, there's an implicit understanding
> of the content you are
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:12:58 -0500
Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Of course it is. You subscribed to it. If you don't want it anymore,
> unsubscribe.
I disagree. When you subscribe to a list, there's an implicit understanding
of the content you are signing up for. If the list owner violates the rules
On 1/20/2011 4:10 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:06:31 -1000
> "Warren Togami Jr." wrote:
>
>> Ham is a lot easier to define than Spam. Ham is simply anything that
>> you subscribed for.
> Not necessarily. You could subscribe to a list expecting it to contain
> useful conten
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:06:31 -1000
"Warren Togami Jr." wrote:
> Ham is a lot easier to define than Spam. Ham is simply anything that
> you subscribed for.
Not necessarily. You could subscribe to a list expecting it to contain
useful content. A few months later, the organization running the l