On 23 May 2002 at 12:40, Berg Oswell wrote:
> David W. Tamkin wrote:
> > All the more reason that nobody should presume to decide what mail
> > any other person wants or doesn't want. As long as there are email
> > recipients who are not sysadmins, spam filtering cannot be
> > accomplished satisfactorily by blanket rules for the whole site. (I
> > was going to say "nor at the MTA level," but possibly every user
> > could get a separate subdomain with a different way of contacting
> > the smtpd such that every user could configure the MTA uniquely for
> > his or her incoming mail. But perhaps that would require a separate
> > IP address for each user's smtpd, and that might render it
> > impracticable.)
> I agree; Personally, if it's unsolicited, I don't even read it. Even
> if someone is sending me extremely well-targeted spam with the deal of
> a lifetime, I wouldn't do business with someone who resorts to spam
> email.
> IMO, the best test of what email to send is simple...did the
> person affirmatively request the mailing? If not, then it shouldn't
> be sent.
That's a pretty tough test. If I applied it to my
incoming mail, I wouldn't have been able to do my last
job. I was an editor for a technical magazine. If I
didn't get notes from people who wanted to become
writers or to write for us, we wouldn't have had new
writers. If I didn't get notes from vendors I hadn't
dealt with before, we wouldn't have been able to review
any products except those we already knew about.
Actually, I think it's a pretty simplistic test. I draw
the line at unsolicited mail sent to many people. If
someone has a reasonable expectation that I will be
interested in a piece of email they want to send to me
as an individual, I am usually willing to receive it. Even
if I hadn't heard of them before. I view this as part of
the price I pay for being in the public eye. You say you
aren't in the public eye? I beg to differ - you just put
yourself there....
Mike
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