Re: [Asrg] Re: whitelisting

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

gep2 at terabites.com wrote:
(I wrote:)
>> gep2 at terabites.com wrote:
>
>>> "Unsolicited mail" is NOT automatically a bad thing... for example,
>>> if you're in the "customer relations" department for a consumer
>>> product manufacturer, the GREAT majority of what you're going to
>>> receive is from people you've never gotten E-mail from before.
>
>> That doesn't make it unsolicited.  If you asked for it (for instance,
>> you put on your web site "If you want to comment about our products,
>> send email to . . .") then it's solicited by definition.
>
> I don't agree.

I think you need to read more carefully.

> I put my E-mail address on my Web site, but that does NOT mean that
> I have "solicited" any spam that some e-mail-address-harvesting
> spammer decides to try to dump on me.
>
> The fact that I solicit mail from clients and other specific people
> does NOT mean that I necessarily want any and all mail from Nigerian
> sleazebags or lottery scammers.

If I put on my web site "If you've solved this math problem <problem>
please let me know at <address>" and someone solves the problem and
tells me how by sending email to <address> then I've clearly solicited
that email.  Anybody who read my web site would agree.  If someone
wrote "I got halfway there but I'm stuck at . . ." that's arguable but
nobody sensible would claim he's spamming.

If someone told me about the $millions she was trying to smuggle out
of the Vatican that would be unsolicited.

A statement that I _want_ specific types of email is soliciting _those
specific types of email_.

Seth

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