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Marc Zucchelli wrote:
When you purchase a list of email addresses from aMarc, I may not know as much tech as many on this list, but I know a little about business. Purchasing advertising on a commercial web site, like Yahoo only proves that you have the financial backing to pay for the advertising. It says nothing for your business ethics.
reputable company like www.infousa.com (which
yahoo.com happens to have posted as a service on
yahoo small business).
And when this reputableUh-huh... Like someone who subscribes to a newsletter and by doing so "opts in" to email solicitations?
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?If I buy a single PalmOS MUA from Handango 4 years ago and they keep sending me ads once a week, that is spam. I don't buy the prior relationship excuse of many spammers (and the PA "Do not call list"), nor do I believe that everyone who doesn't read and understand the [no] "Privacy Policy" on a web site opts in. We shouldn't all have to consult with a lawyer before we interact with a web site or online vendor.
A client of mine, against my advice, one timeNo. What you send out is spam. Regardless of whether you trawl for addresses or pay someone else to.
purchased a program that crawled the internet for
email addresses and then sent email out to all of
them. THAT is spam.
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