[41253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: e-mail list use at Akamai, followup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Stewart)
Tue Sep 4 18:26:40 2001
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 18:26:05 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Dave Stewart <dbs@ntrnet.net>
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At 05:19 PM 9/4/2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
>1) Akamai won't be using any lists in the future to do e-mail marketing.
> That's a firm commitment that we're prepared to make. Anyone doing
> so will be terminated.
>
>2) Akamai's policy has been and remains that no Akamai salespeople are
> to e-mail potential customers unless they've been given permission
> to do so by a human. Violations have led, and will lead, to termination.
As it should be. If only every company could be big enough to stand up and
say "We made a mistake, we learned from that mistake and we'll strive never
to do it again."
I, for one, applaud this.
