Re: Continuent & pgsql-announce ... please do not approve

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:24:08PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> >Opt-out is what spammers allege they honor. The problem is that
> >"honor" and "spammer" only belong in a sentence with a negation in
> >between.
>
> I am currently subscribed to their marketing list at two e-mail
> addresses. I just unsubscribed one of them using the link at the
> bottom of the message. The next time I see an announcement go out
> on the other address, I'll be happy to report on whether the other
> was was removed or not. Since, as you say, one component of whether
> a company is doing the worst of the common spammer behaviors is
> whether they honor opt-out requests, I think it would be reasonable
> to actually test that before breaking out the pitchforks.

If there weren't any history, this would be a reasonable test. There
is a history, it's years long, and it doesn't give any reasonable hope
that what you've done will work this time, as opposed to all the other
times people have tried it.

Cheers,
David.
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