On 01/20/2011 11:31 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
Public discussion lists are bit different. In that case, it is the individual post that is being considered spam rather than considering the list spammy. Since there is no overall control over the content of the posts, public lists are vulnerable to being filled with spam if the list owners are not paying attention.
For this reason, the ham trap will not be subscribed to any discussion lists.
When you sign up for a company's email list, you get whatever they decide to send you. If they decide to start sending marketing to the list, I would not consider that spam because they own the list and they can decide what to use it for. The recipients signed up to get that company's emails and if they no longer want to receive them, they can unsubscribe. And as I said before, if the unsubscribe function doesn't work, then the emails become spam (regardless of the actual content).
Your understanding is exactly correct. Warren
