Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-08 Thread jdow
On 20180208 07:23, David Jones wrote: On 02/07/2018 06:28 PM, Dave Warren wrote: On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, at 15:52, Martin Gregorie wrote: Technically, you asked for the email and they have a valid opt-out process that will stop sending you email.  Yes, the site has scummy practices but that is

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-08 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 09:23 -0600, David Jones wrote: > On 02/07/2018 06:28 PM, Dave Warren wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, at 15:52, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > > Technically, you asked for the email and they have a valid opt- > > > > out > > > > process that will stop sending you email. Yes, th

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-08 Thread Paul Stead
Hi All, dkimwl.org is a site owned and run by myself. A little bit of work is required to get the TOU sorted - I'd floated the idea some time ago but not much interest was seen so I stopped work on the front end services. The backend and classification/voting system is in place and should work

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-08 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 08-02-18 16:33, Giovanni Bechis wrote: > On 02/08/18 16:23, David Jones wrote: >> On 02/07/2018 06:28 PM, Dave Warren wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, at 15:52, Martin Gregorie wrote: > Technically, you asked for the email and they have a valid opt-out > process that will stop sending you

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-08 Thread Giovanni Bechis
On 02/08/18 16:23, David Jones wrote: > On 02/07/2018 06:28 PM, Dave Warren wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, at 15:52, Martin Gregorie wrote: Technically, you asked for the email and they have a valid opt-out process that will stop sending you email.  Yes, the site has scummy practices

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-08 Thread David Jones
On 02/07/2018 06:28 PM, Dave Warren wrote: On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, at 15:52, Martin Gregorie wrote: Technically, you asked for the email and they have a valid opt-out process that will stop sending you email. Yes, the site has scummy practices but that is not spam by my definition. Yes, under EU

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-08 Thread LuKreme
On Feb 7, 2018, at 06:17, David Jones wrote: > > Hypothetical question: If you signed up for a new account on a website and > they had a small checkbox that was enabled to receive emails from them and > you didn't see it to uncheck it, when you get an email from them a month > later, is that s