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It may well be spam (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous User on Thu Aug 09, 2007 at 02:22:00 PM PDT

The original poster doesn't provide enough information to let us determine whether or not he's indeed sending spam. This lack of information leads me to believe that he may well be doing so.

Spam is defined as UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email). If it's possible for someone to use his web form to sign some innocent victim up for his mailing list, his list is sending spam. In that case, the complaints are valid and AOL's action is correct.

It doesn't matter how much form-filling out the web page requires. What matters is whether filling out that page results in an Email that must be replied to in order to join the list. That Email should contain a random key so that only the receiver can provide the correct reply. This is one of the few ways to be sure that the person who signed that address up for the list actually owns that address and wants to subsribe.
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Ron



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