UBE = Unsolicited Bulk Email AKA SPAM. No, because smart people rightly don't trust them to remove and in fact consider them "honey pots" for collecting/validating emails to be used for other mass mailings. No honor among thieves!
End users call me all the time about "Does this sound legit" for spam. I give them the same thing I say about telemarketing, "Are you going to reward them for hassling you?". Read the privacy policy & it probably uses double speak to get around the checking of DND box. =) Right, they're making you work to get around them. Send 'em a bill for your labor! <rant> Forrester campaign here in NJ got a NO vote from me just based on their handling of UBE sent to me. Can't elect a schlep that use UBE because he'd never sign-off on anti-spam legislation. </rant> At 12:29 PM 11/13/2002, Jeffry Houser wrote: >I'll ask a different question. > > Is E-mail marketing viewed as being different than SPAM? > How about unsolicited E-mail marketing? Do people feel differently if >contacted a single time by a legit business with a valid return E-mail >address than if they are contacted by some porn site with a hotmail / yahoo >account? I have an associate who is starting a recording studio business >and E-mailed a bunch of local bands unsolicited. I was given the >impression he got a good response from that. > > When you vote on the CFDJ reader awards, and select "do not contact me" >checkbox and they go ahead and contact you anyway, does that constitute >SPAM? ( It happened to three friends who were nice enough to vote for my >book in the Best Book category ) > > On Halloween, I deleted all of my SPAM deletion filters under the >assumption they weren't working. Since then I started creating new >filters, that move everything SPAM into a SPAM folder. I have received 248 >SPAM messages since Halloween. I created 112 filters just for SPAM domains. > Joshua MacCraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jmaccraw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
