Re: Big Companies Add to Spam

Steve Schear wrote:

> Moreover, some companies have allowed the e-mail addresses of their 
> own customers, either deliberately or inadvertently, to fall into the 
> hands of list peddlers who in turn sell them to e-mail marketers of 
> all stripes. Sometimes, the lists are stolen from corporate owners by 
> employees or vendors looking to make a quick profit. But in many 
> cases, the big companies are deliberately buying and selling access to 
> names, relying on privacy policies often hard to find on their 
> sites that they say permit such actions.
>
> "White-collar spam" is how Nick Usborne, a newsletter writer and 
> Internet marketing consultant, refers to this phenomenon.
>
> "When a responsible company," Mr. Usborne said, "gets someone to sign 
> up for a newsletter and says, now that we have their e-mail address 
> let's make more money off it and send them e-mail they didn't ask for, 
> that's white-collar spam."
>
A conset framework with a separate 'lock' for each person given the 
email address, would stop that. Just turn off that lock.