Re: [PLUG] Re: what is the best way to bulk email 2 million opt in email

Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net> · Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:54:04 -0500

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On Dec 8, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Marc Zucchelli wrote:

When you purchase a list of email addresses from a
reputable company like www.infousa.com (which
yahoo.com happens to have posted as a service on
yahoo small business). And when this reputable
company claims that these are all opt in email
addresses, people that said that they want to recieve
emails on certain subjects. How is this spam?

What are they opting into, exactly? Certainly not anything first-hand, 
since you admittedly bought the list from a third party. Therefore, 
they haven't opted into anything from you and therefore you are a 
spammer since you can't be sure that any of the mailboxes on that list 
have requested mail from you.
I work for Symantec's anti-spam division; let me say authoratatively 
that the behavior you described is spamming. I spend every day 
attempting to limit or stop activities of this sort. No one has a list 
of 2 million real, confirmed, opt-in email addresses... noone. 
Furthermore, if there was such a list, it most certainly wouldn't be 
for sale on Yahoo!.
A client of mine, against my advice, one time
purchased a program that crawled the internet for
email addresses and then sent email out to all of
them. THAT is spam.

Correction: that is _ALSO_ spam.
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Tobias DiPasquale
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