On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:52:12AM -0700, Tina Lin wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
> > Nice double-speak. Will Topica continue spamming or not?
>
> We have stopped notifying list owners.
That's not an answer to the question that you were asked, but perhaps
you misunderstood.
I'm asking if Topica will continue *any* spamming activities of
any kind. If the answer is "yes", then there's not much left to discuss,
because my view is that spammers should be mercilessly obliterated,
regardless of what else they might doing, no matter how useful or
how well-intentioned.
> We would really welcome your input, not just on this issue, but on other
> ongoing issues. We have set up a public, unmoderated discussion list for
> list owners interested in providing feedback. Hope to see some of you
> there.
I'm sorry, I don't understand why I should donate free consulting
time to your business to solve problems that y'all should have solved
before you started down this road. Maybe there *is* a way that you
can somehow offer services related to mailing lists without usurping
the authority of list-owners, violating their copyrights (and those
of their subscribers), spamming, or any of the other pitfalls: I honestly
don't know. If there is such a way, I wish you the best of luck in
finding it. But I hardly think the onus is on the list-owner/manager
community to undertake *your* education. That is up to *you*, and
copious resources, from the archives of this mailing list (and others),
FAQs, web sites, books, etc., all exist to facilitate it.
In other words, if y'all wanna make the big start-up bucks, then *earn them*.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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