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Subject: Re: findmail
From: Justin Sheehy <justin @ linus . mitre . org>
Date: 03 Jun 1998 13:02:22 -0400
To: List-Managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Chuq Von Rospach's message of "Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:59:11 -0700"
References: "Tom Neff"'s message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 10:12:23 -0400" <000101bd8c9e$21a49ec0$b07e2581@newmicronpc> <v04011703b19937008594@[207.167.80.70]>

Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> writes:

> I've had findMail attempt to sign up for lists that they promised to
> leave alone after the FIRST cease and desist.

Yep.  Same here.  The list that I mentioned earlier in this thread was
one that they had subscribed to several months earlier.

We told them to buzz off, and we even put their silly "PRIVATE LIST"
crud in the info file.  I think that it should not be necessary to
explicitly opt out, but it was still done.

They resubscribed anyway.  They did so without asking anyone, without
contacting a single human.

They may provide a service that some people like, but their ethics and
netiquette are severely lacking.

-Justin



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