On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 01:46 -0800, Jeff Chan wrote: > While I certainly would encourage improving ham and spam corpora, > this proposal may open up a lot of grey areas that may be > non-trivial to resolve. > Agreed, and some companies will get to you sign up for accounting and service problem notifications and then pump advertising down the channel in such volume that the purpose for which you signed up seems utterly forgotten.
British Telecom sets a bad example here: they even behave like a spammer inasmuch as they regularly vary their promotions text to dodge spam filters. I'd be worried that if word gets around that SA is developing rules that give signed-up bulk mail a free ride then a lot more companies will do the same. Martin
