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Subject: 
Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 5 May 2000 18:24:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
> 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.

No, I think the key phrase here is "unsolicited COMMERCIAL e-mail".

Cheers,
- jsproat



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  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) 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/ (26 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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