Re: FN-FORUM: Email marketing - Is this legal?

date posted 16th August 2004 11:14


On 16 Aug 2004, at 11:59, Kalagoo.Com wrote:

> Leased line, own mail server, ISP Worldcom don't bother us much.

Yeah, but your leased line and mail server all plug in somewhere. Or
are you saying it's all via WorldCom?

Whatever...

> If I cant send unsolicited mail then how are you supposed to 'solicit'
> in
> the first place? Surely a single friendly email with zero followup
> would be
> ok???

Well, yeah, probably.

But basically you need to ask that of all 70,000 people you're about to
email. Just hope none of those people is in a particularly bad mood
when your email arrives.

In particular, note that you'll probably have a really hard time
sending any email to aol.com for a while.

Every time you get a spam do you think "oh - it's ok for them to send
me a single friendly email because i expect no follow up from this?"

...j
(who has previously had a company booted from both their adsl and web
provider for sending spam)

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