On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:26:31 -0500 Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You may not advertise your WWW pages, or cause another person to > advertise it, by techniques that would be classified as abuse if they > were carried out from a Debian Account. This includes, but is not > limited to, bulk emailing and excessive news posting. Such action may be > treated under the appropriate DMUP as if it had been done from the > Account, or as a violation of this DMUP or both. > > I request a ruling from the Debian-Admin team on whether Michael > Bramer's actions constitute "bulk emailing". > > It is my personal opinion that it does, but that bulk emailing should be > accepted under the following circumstances: According to http://www.imc.org/uce-def.html (im sure there are lots of other definitions laying about though) "Unsolicited Bulk Email, or UBE, is Internet mail ("email") that is sent to a group of recipients who have not requested it." >From what i understand your disagreement is purely with "who have not requested it" part, however messages are no more being "sent to a group of recipients" than BTS mail. I think it should be considered to be just like mail from the BTS. Glenn
