| W. Chris Shank on 9 Dec 2004 03:58:03 -0000 |
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Dude, this is spam. It's not illegal (necessarily). But you have to ask yourself if you want to be a spammer. Speaking from experience, it's unwise. Most people will ignore or delete your email or it will be blocked by Toby's smart software. Spamming is a cheap way to advertise but 2mil might not even be enough names to get results. Tell your employer to spend the money he'd pay you (plus a lot more) on a mail marketing campaign. He'll get better results. On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 17:03 -0800, Marc Zucchelli wrote: --- Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Dec 8, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Marc Zucchelli wrote: > > When you purchase a list of email addresses from a > > reputable company like www.infousa.com (which > > yahoo.com happens to have posted as a service on > > yahoo small business). And when this reputable > > company claims that these are all opt in email > > addresses, people that said that they want to > recieve > > emails on certain subjects. How is this spam? > > What are they opting into, exactly? Certainly not > anything first-hand, > since you admittedly bought the list from a third > party. Therefore, > they haven't opted into anything from you and > therefore you are a > spammer since you can't be sure that any of the > mailboxes on that list > have requested mail from you. > > I work for Symantec's anti-spam division; let me say > authoratatively > that the behavior you described is spamming. I spend > every day > attempting to limit or stop activities of this sort. > No one has a list > of 2 million real, confirmed, opt-in email > addresses... noone. > Furthermore, if there was such a list, it most > certainly wouldn't be > for sale on Yahoo!. > > > A client of mine, against my advice, one time > > purchased a program that crawled the internet for > > email addresses and then sent email out to all of > > them. THAT is spam. > > Correction: that is _ALSO_ spam. Then what is the difference between spam and legit email marketing? I would like as much info on this as possible in case I am being naive. I also dont want to get anyone in trouble. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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