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by Anonymous User on Thu Jul 24, 2003 at 11:49:12 AM PDT

I dislike the policy as much as anyone. But I bought tickets from them for a baseball game last year (the WORST e-commerce site I ever used, by the way, plus atrocious fees) and have never gotten any spam for similar events since. (One regular mail communication from the team is all.) I think whoever wrote that policy still has that mid-90s fantasy that somehow e-mail demographics would allow amazingly successful marketing. Truth is most of us know what is available out there and buy what we want. It's not like shopping was all that hard in pre-internet America! In this case (fortunately) the reality seems to be not as bad as the appearance.



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