Re: [PLUG] what is the best way to bulk email 2 million opt in email addresses?

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

George Gallen wrote:

> It's a shame that we had to stoop to the practices of true spammers
> just to get out an email that was not spam, but rather a cheap method
> to contact customers that had a postal mailing been done (which would
> have included interntional) it would have been very expensive and for
> the international people, not a timely notification. And these costs
> would have to have been ultimatly passed on to the consumer. Not all
> spam is bad.
>
> If you purchase a product from a company, * I * do feel that gives the 
> company
> a right to email you, unless you specifically tell them to stop.
George, you touch on the other reason spam is evil.  It obscures 
important mail.  Now that "direct mailers" have gotten "more 
sophisticated" (read: sneakier), I tend to fear that I am throwing out 
something important because it looks like junk mail.  Very much like a 
false positive on a spam filter.

Why should a legitimate mailer who is sending you something you 
requested, have to give you instructions for whitelisiting?

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