Re: Thinking outside the box

On 3/18/13 6:51 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> 7. Currently, UK legislation includes a weak distinction between 
> personal and business recipients. It's legal to send UME to business 
> recipients - presumably there are businesses that like to be on the 
> receiving end of B2B marketing. But which of these email addresses is 
> a business address: "[email protected]", "[email protected]", 
> "[email protected]". I think it's uncontroversial that the first 
> is business, the last is personal. However, the middle one is 
> ambiguous (it's a personal local part, in a business domain). I'd like 
> to see some infrastructure for expressing the concept. Or, a personal 
> name in the local part makes it a personal address (but what about 
> jobs@apple…?). Or, maybe the exemption should just be removed entirely. 

It's clear to me: every address at a business is a business address. 
Every domain is either business or personal. If businesses wish to 
control spam within their business domain, that's on them.