If it's older than 3 - 6 months at the outside, one is just begging for trouble.
And it will probably indulge the sender from an unexpected direction. Aloha, Michael. -- Michael J Wise Microsoft Corporation| Spam Analysis "Your Spam Specimen Has Been Processed." Open a ticket for Hotmail<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=614866> ? -----Original Message----- From: mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> On Behalf Of Grant Taylor via mailop Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 12:03 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [mailop] How stale is too stale for contacts? On 5/4/21 12:42 PM, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: > Are they offering you money or hoping you will give them some ? Neither. It was a 'Hey! We (finally) published something!' notification. They seem to be a start up security research company. They hadn't done /anything/ public that I'm aware of. The message in question was their first / initial use of the mailing list. > I had shares in a company that took the official receiver > 14 years to wind up* and I got a cheque at the end of it ! > There were some interim payments but IIRC there would have > been gaps of over 2 years with no news. > > In that case I would have been very unhappy if they had thrown out > the list as "stale". I feel like "is an investor / has shares in the company" is a significantly different association / relationship than a "sing up if you want to learn more when we publish something" (with an implicit Any Time Now™). > Oh, and annual events that were cancelled last year because of COVID > ought to have told you, but if you weren't told the 2020 date > because there wasn't one, the announcement this year could be two years > after the previous message. Agreed. But that's decidedly not the case with this example. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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