[epub] Re: laws for e-marketing & HEADS-UP

[Janet Roberts <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:03 PM 11/11/2003 +1100, Dr. Mani wrote:

> Ross, when it's one of your first 100 posts, it's an ad.  When it's among
> the 500 plus posts one makes over 6 years of membership, it sort of
> becomes accepted as a message.
>
> Comment, Janet?

Yeah, that's about the size of it. Dr. Mani has been a regular contributor 
here for a long time. This is not a license for people to write in and do 
nothing but promote their businesses, but I do recognize that many of us 
are single-person shops or small-business owners, which is why we allow 
people to post promotional information in their sigs as long as they keep 
them to 6 lines or fewer.

While I have your attention, everyone who publishes a newsletter or keeps a 
mailing list might want to check it for a troublemaker I just removed. The 
person's name is SpamWarDotPansen and the email address is 
WarDotPansen@xxxxxxxxxxx . This person apparently styles himself/herself as 
an antispammer, because he/she yesterday sent email signed Greedz and 
allegedly asking for product information to a contact list that included a 
number of our EmailUniverse email addresses, including the one I use for 
posting to epub. I also spotted a number of epub members' addresses in the 
CC: field that this person was (luckily) dumb enough to use for the 
mailing.

I searched our database and found this same email address subscribed to 
almost every one of our email newsletters, and the person sent the goofy 
email to each of those newsletter sending addresses. I removed that address 
from our database.

If anybody gets a weird spam that looks as if it might have an epub 
connection, forward it to me ASAP off the list. I found and deleted another 
spammer yesterday.

Janet
epub moderator 


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