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Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 5 May 2000 18:19:32 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > - statement in the TOS that sending unsolicited mail using addresses obtained
> > ANY other way is a TOS violation and may subject you to prosecution, etc. not
> > just getting TOSsed.
> 
> Excellent idea!  Probably no way to enforce it, but still worth mentioning as
> it is important to discourage this by default.

So if someone posts something about something they built,
but didn't ask for comments, and then I email them to
ask how they built it, that would be a violation of the Terms,
or even a crime?  That doesn't sound appropriate to me.

/Eric McC/



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) No, I think the key phrase here is "unsolicited COMMERCIAL e-mail". Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) Well I think this is a good point maybe the statement should read more like this.. (Using Larry's statement as a starting point) "Sending unsolicited BULK e-mail using addresses obtained via any unapproved mechanism on LUGNET is a TOS (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) Excellent idea! Probably no way to enforce it, but still worth mentioning as it is important to discourage this by default. --Todd (26 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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