At 11:34 AM -0400 8/21/02, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:16:33AM -0500, Frank Pineau wrote:
>>  Omaha Steaks *is* spam.  I bought something from them once.
>>*Great* steaks, but
>>  then they started calling me, emailing me, snail-mailing,
>>constantly.  I once
>
>If you sign up for something, it's not spam by definition, aggressive as
>they may be.  (I told them to stop calling me, and they stopped, so ...)
I call it spam if I ask to be removed from the spamming list though.
I occasionally buy X-10 stuff.  I've learned from past experiences to
create a quick mail alias to get order confs and what not.  Then can
it once the order is complete because those spamming SOBs will not
stop filling my inbox with 3-6 ads per day.  I've LARTed them and
their upstream numerous times asking to be list washed.  I don't even
get an auto-ack.  I started a procmail recipe to reject mail to them
and include a form letter (I was planning on later appending every
piece of x-10 spam I've archived to the form letter for their reading
pleasure...) but I haven't gotten it to work.  Bottom line, if I gave
them permission to mail me (explicitly or via privacy policy), it's
not spam but once I told them to stop mailing me then it's spam.
My $.02
Justin
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