Re: [Asrg] Implicit Consent (was: Another criteria for "what is spam"...)

"Richard Johnson" <rdump@river.com> Thu, 05 June 2003 19:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Implicit Consent (was: Another criteria for "what is spam"...)
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 13:19:36 -0600

At 10:21 -0400 on 2003-06-05, Bill Cole wrote:
>
> In your example, Mr. Kay's axiom would imply that X has implicitly
> given permission for Y to mail him.
>
> I think that's sound.


It's sound only when given a sunset provision.

If I request a quote from a vendor, they should respond with a quote.
However, they may -not- add me to their newsletter (or any other continuing
stream of marketing jive) just because I requested a quote. [1]

The implicit permission has to be limited by the context of the initial
exchange, or we end up with just another excuse for Y spamming X.


Richard

[1] Example: I requested a PKI CA quote from Verisign, via telephone, and
gave my email address to an engineer only after instructing him to keep it
out of the hands of marketing.  They slammed me into their newsletter
anyway (repeatedly -- one of the RISKs of grepping /var/log/maillog is that
you pick up those complaining and re-add them).  They lost the $50k+renewal
as a result.
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