Re: [Asrg] Do-Not-Call list launch E-mails

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@mail1.nber.org> wrote:
>
>
>On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 gep2@terabites.com wrote:
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>> Regardless of how desirable you think your offering is, the bottom line is 
that 
>> your "millions" of E-mails you plan to send ARE unsolicited E-mails, and thus 
>> ARE spam.
>> 
>
>I think the original message was fairly clear that the messages would only
>be sent to people signing up on the web page for call blocking, so they
>are solicited. 

I did not see that message.  Sorry.

> If AT&T were to send messages to random people asking if
>they wanted the service, that would be unsolicited.

Absolutely.

>The original posting mentioned "millions of messages" because they
>assume that millions of people will visit the web page to request calls be 
>blocked.

In any case, just sending out a lot of E-mail messages on an individual basis 
shouldn't result in them being blocked.  

But clearly the more personalized information they contain regarding the person 
to which each is sent (name, e-mail address, IP address and maybe the time and 
date from which they signed up for the service, etc etc) the less likely the 
E-mails will look alike and trigger spam filters.

But I'd still recommend, too, that the E-mails be sent in compact, 
compatible-with-everyone plain ASCII text, too.  :-)

I know that some recipients DO systematically filter HTML-burdened E-mail, and 
sending in plain ASCII text increases the likelihood that the mail will be 
delivered.

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