On 1/25/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thake the million # List and break it into 1000 member Lists and START > from there. Yep, gonna mean that you will have to reveiw EACH member > of EACH 1000 person List.
But you can't really do that, either. One key difference between spam and a proper mailing list is that you have hard confirmation from the recipient that they asked to get the particular content in question. In other words, they signed themselves up for a list, they got a confirmation notice, and they then acted on the confirmation notice to say "yes, I really do want this content". Any time you buy a large list of addresses from somewhere, you bypass the first steps of that process, and that would make you a spammer. Even if you just send out invitations to those people to join your list, and you don't send anything else to them without their explicit confirmation, you're still a spammer. The Direct Marketing Association says that they just want one bite of your apple, no more. But when you've got a billion people taking just one bite each out of your apple, do you honestly think you're going to have an apple left? -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
