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

Bill Cole <aarg@billmail.scconsult.com> Thu, 05 June 2003 14:31 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 10:21:24 -0400

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.


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Bill Cole
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