On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:53:48AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [snip] > Let me get this straight. > > You are adding, of your own accord, people to your list. You leave them > an opt out option. In my book, that's called spam, but I'll let the good > people of the list decide for their own. It is sad, in my eyes, that > supposedly "open source" companies don't get what it's truly about.
I agree. I would also like to mention that opt-out is considered by many, besides being a nuisance, a well-known way for spammers to sort out real, live addresses from the huge heap of junk they get from the address-collectors. So I, personally, never opt-out. I simply live with it. I suggest to folks like software.co.il to advertize themselves *very* politely (e.g. 1-2 times a year) on linux-il, and if they think there are people here that will want to subscribe to some mailing list of theirs, to write that *once* in a letter to linux-il, not to anyone personally. I do not think that software.co.il did a terrible thing, though. The main reason I decided to reply is in order to prevent worse things from less considerate companies in the future. Thanks, -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
