This kind of problem could be dealt with very simply if laws could solve anything
- require all bulk emailers to tell the user where they got their name from. Even
better, require notification by any listholder who passes my email address to
someone else, including the source address to be used by the new bulk emailer.
Thus, we would immediately know who disseminated our addresses, and have an
opportunity to block, correct, complain about, or even keep, new bulk email.
I suppose such a law would actually work with bulk snailmailers and phonespammers,
as both are already subject to federal regulation. I like it.
Gary B
Unless you're dealing on a very small scale, it's impossible to
have structure in place to avoid problems 100%. It may not even
be the list hosting service itself, but the one the list owner
was using previously. Case in point - we've had a number of
lists transferred over to us from other services where the owner
or employee at the other service gave the list owner an old
version of their list (i.e.with people not removed who should
have been and vice versa). End result? Spam complaints. Who is
it at fault here?
