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Originally posted by RawAlex@May 15 2003, 01:22 PM
Hooper, you have said you mail to single opt in lists. IE: Someone types in a name, you mail to them.
That is just wrong - because there is no way to prove the box owner wants the mail. You can just type in addresses yourself and have the same level of consent to use the addresses.
You have no proof people want your mail, therefore you are spamming. Your only "proof" is an address in a box ONCE, could have been typed by anyone. Your spamming, get use to it. You put the U in UCE.
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There is no difference in the snailmail world. I have a friend that signed me up for over 100 samples and videos of "Rogain"... I in turn got him mailed over 100 samples of "depends". We constantly sign each other up for various snailmail products... Glaxo welcome is convinced that he has herpes and definitely needs Valtrex for "suppression", he gets 2 to 5 pieces a week from them, free coupons, etc...
I recently recieved a bunch of mail, that he caused, telling me how my "AIDS" could be taken care of (needless to say, I neither have or want "AIDS"). None of these promotions that we sign each other up for require any type of confirmation to start getting sent.... I have used phone to sign him up (they dont even confirm what number is calling), I have used Business Reply Cards to sign him up, I have used web sites to sign him up....
No double opt in, no nothing.
The powers that be are unfairly singleing out the email marketers because, like I said in my last post, THEY CAN'T GET A CUT !!!
imho of course.........