Dean, I started the thread with the original question, and after not hearing a suitable response from either Spamcop or someone from the networking side of Facebook, I gave up on this thread when people like Michelle started chiming in their opinion. This thread wasn't meant to be an opinion-fest, but a technical issue that definitely hampers my customers, which apparently, everyone completely lost sight of. So really, my customers, and myself are victims of Spamcop's blocking of Facebook.
-S Dean Anderson wrote: > What a load of BS from the "scammer/counterfeit-antispammer" crowd, > otherwise described as con-artists and frauds. > > "You're not authorized to solicit bulk email on behalf of third > parties: only they are" > > Huh? In this case, the third party (the user) authorized sending the > mail on //their// behalf to //their// contacts. This email doesn't go > out except by action of the user. The *recipients* of the email have > indeed solicited email from the user; they are the contacts of the user. > > Basically, what the (well-known) con-artists are trying to say is that > Facebook can't be authorized by its own user to send email from the user > to the contacts of that user. Finally, Linkedin, plaxo and other social > networking sites do the same thing. ISPs also send email on behalf of > their users, and have done so for many years. > > Last, just imagine if each of your contacts had to authorize which ISP > you could use to send them email. Facebook is just an ISP in the email > transaction, offering a service to the user; so that the user can send > email to their contacts. Obviously both the user and Facebook benefit, > but there is nothing wrong with that. Its not spam because its sent at > the request of the user to people the user is already in contact with. > > Blocking facebook is a scam; an effort to shakedown Facebook for > money/services/etc. > > Jim: Are you starting to see a pattern, yet? There is no point in > arguing with con-artists. > > --Dean > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 03:16:25PM -0400, jim deleskie wrote: >>> If I leave all boxes checked to send mail/notices/app requests to >>> everyone in my list, or if I give FB my gmail password to pull all my >>> contacts and send them an invite, its pure @ my request, sure FB is >>> happy I do it, but it is no way spam. >> This is dead wrong. You're not authorized to solicit bulk email on behalf >> of third parties: only they are. In the absence of solicitation from >> the *recipients*, bulk email is spam -- by definition. >> >> ---Rsk >> >> >> >> >
