On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Brandon Stout <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----be responsible and send no invites. That > means > click 'uncheck all'. There are options to check everyone and to > uncheck everyone. I really don't see how Facebook could compile a > list of all the mail lists in the world so that they could avoid > sending invites to the mail list, and that's what Facebook would > likely have to do to make it so people didn't send invites to the mail > lists in their address books. Even if they could, is it worth the > overhead cost? If I were managing the project, I think I'd say no. > > Brandon > I'm not sure if anyone else tried this, but the CANSpam law requires them to have an opt out message. They are too big and public not to comply. I clicked through, and it was easy enough to opt out and prevent future messages from being sent to the list. Just one offense has produced some insightful conversation on the topic, so it didn't cost us too much after the noise died down. Unfortunately this doesn't necessarily scale well. If every piddling seller on the internet sent us marketing until we opted out, we could hardly use mail without whitelists. As for the smaller fish, opting out just tells a spammer that they've got an active account to harass. This list uses a membership whitelist (last I checked), which should have blocked facebook from posting in the first place regardless of the reply-to field. Time to update it if these get through. Scott K
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