[75548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EFF whitepaper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Mon Nov 15 19:36:36 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:35:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <AFAF0E1DDFEBDD4FB5376F27E943570301D3C6EE@PNTXCMAIL01.hq.espire.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:07:20 -0500 Peering <Peering@xspedius.com> wrote:
> >From personal experience, whether you check that you want further
> mailings from MoveOn.org or not, they send them to you anytime you send
> anything (petitions, letters, etc) from their website. They're also not
> that great about taking you off when you complain (I have had to
> complain 2-3 times per incident). For this reason, no matter how I feel
> about the subject, I won't go through them anymore.
> Hopefully one of their contacts is listening, because their mail policy
> is really obnoxious.
deja vu all over again.
i had this conversation (about unconfirmed mailings) with a staffer at
the dean campaign earlier this year. the general feeling i got was that
they don't clearly understand the problem, and are much more concerned
about creating a barrier to entry than worrying about creating a barrier
to mail abuse.
sigh,
richard
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