Re: [Asrg] Another criteria for "what is spam"...

[Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com>]

> From: Margie Arbon <margie@mail-abuse.org>

> ...
> > - It is unsolicited commercial bulk e-mail from an organization the
> > recipient does not have any prior relationship with.
>
> Define prior business relationship.  If I have a store credit card 
> with Company, Inc., and have never given them my email address for 
> any reason, do they get to e-pend it from other sources, merely 
> because they can?  Yes, I have a business relationship with Company, 
> Inc., but they were never granted permission to extend that 
> relationship into an arena I have not chosen to invite them into, 
> namely my inbox.
> ...

According to "Legislators Call for Fix to Law Against Unsolicited
E-Mails" in the Friday's "Wall Street Journal"
( http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105484626839598400,00.html may
require a subscription) Sprint argued that you do have a prior business
relationship in such a case:

]                        ... Sprint Corp. for example, denied
] sending unsolicited mail to Terry Gillman, one of Mr. Riddle's
] clients. In court papers, the Overland Park, Kan., telecommunications
] company argued that Mr. Gillman agreed to receive promotional e-mail
] while registering in April 2002 on a Web site owned by closely held
] Audio Galaxy, an online music company. Addresses collected by Audio
] Galaxy were sold and resold and ended up with a company called
] GroupLotto that initiated a mailing for Sprint long-distance phone service.


Disclaimer:  I think the DCC deals better with that kind of slime than
with the current flood of porn, loan shark, and drug spam.


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com
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