Re: [Asrg] Position paper, in zipped HTML

Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> > Actually there's a problem with global opt-out lists.  They're global.
> > For instance.  Does my putting my address on one keep Adobe from 
> > sending me the product updates I asked for?  And if not, what keeps 
> > every other company from claiming some prior business relationship.
> I think this is a key point. there's a group of people who see all 
> e-marketing stuff (company to user in some form or another) as junk mail 
> to be nuked, just as there's a group in the paper world who see paper 
> junk mail as something to be dumped (even though in the paper world, the 
> commercial mailings subsidize a lot of the postal service costs).
Much simpler than that.  "opt-out", whether global or otherwise, is 
clearly only intended for unsolicited email.  Why would opting out of 
unsolicited email affect that which you have solicited?
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