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Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Thu Mar 4 14:33:27 2010
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:25:15 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <ffcec29f1003041116u1945ef0fp62465b169475ea60@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 03:16:25PM -0400, jim deleskie wrote:
> If I leave all boxes checked to send mail/notices/app requests to
> everyone in my list, or if I give FB my gmail password to pull all my
> contacts and send them an invite, its pure @ my request, sure FB is
> happy I do it, but it is no way spam.
This is dead wrong. You're not authorized to solicit bulk email on behalf
of third parties: only they are. In the absence of solicitation from
the *recipients*, bulk email is spam -- by definition.
---Rsk
