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 original purpose of the list > and what you thought you signed up for has been corrupted. Most > people would consider the latter to be spam, and rightly so. > That's exactly what I what I was saying about BT. I'm signed up for a list whose stated purpose is to send billing and service change notifications about their phone service, but BT's marketing department suddenly started using it to flog broadband. I think most people would consider these sales messages to be spam and the BT sales department to be spammers.
Under these circumstances I would *not* expect the list to get a Pure-Ham rating. Martin
