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

Dave Aronson <dja2003@hotpop.com> Thu, 05 June 2003 16:25 UTC

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From: Dave Aronson <dja2003@hotpop.com>
To: Bill Cole <aarg@billmail.scconsult.com>, peter@titankey.com
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Implicit Consent (was: Another criteria for "what is spam"...)
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:18:24 -0400
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Bill Cole <aarg@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
 > At 8:37 AM -0400 6/5/03, Dave Aronson wrote:
 > >"Peter Kay" <peter@titankey.com> wrote:
 > >  > A recipient implicitly approves of receiving email from a given
 > >  > sender if the recipient has previously sent email to the sender
 > >  > and the recipient has not explicitly requested to not receive
 > >  > further email from the sender.
 > >
 > > Nope.  X spams Y.  Y, recalling advice never to contact a spammer
 > > directly, reports it to ISP(X) for punishment and ISP(Y) for
 > > blocking, but does NOT request removal.  X has certainly NOT thus
 > > implicitly consented to X's next spam-run!
 >
 > I think you have your X's and Y's mixed up.
 >
 > 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.

Oops, yes, you're right, sorry, mea culpa, etc.  Too much blood in the 
coffee stream indeed....

-- 
David J. Aronson, Unemployed Software Engineer near Washington DC
See http://destined.to/program/ for online resume, and other info

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