Re: Water tight opt-in (yet another FUSSP)

On 01/11/2014 02:14 PM, Barry Shein wrote:

> I don't even know if there'd be general agreement that signing up for
> (e.g., doing business with seems to be signing up) ads from a
> generally-agreed-to-be-legitimate-company, opting out later, but still
> receiving ads is "spam" or is it just "welcome to life buddy there can
> be some disappointments along the way".

Even CANSPAM considers that to be spam.

> Some company you did biz with then passing your name to some related
> company might just be a nuisance.

> The combinatorics of the Fortune 5,000 (and every used car dealership)
> doing it could become something more than a nuisance.
> 
> I claim that in a few years more of you will agree with me.

I would have agreed with you several years back, but, it's been my
experience  since that it doesn't happen as often as you seem to be
implying.

Perhaps my threshold of what's "legitimate" is higher than others.

If you sign up for cheezburgertemple or "you have won a laptop", I think
you get what you deserve.

But I'm not seeing it.

Of course, I always look in the fine print for "we don't share your
address with anybody".  And so far, none of them have.

The IETF does tho ;-)

[Most of my spam comes from email addresses leaked from mailing lists or
scraped from web sites.]

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