On 30 May 2002 at 13:41, David West wrote:
> Is there, in fact, any way this can be stopped?
No, I'm sure there isn't. Same goes for homicide. Your point?
> Is there an way of proving people fall into one category or another?
Don't understand you.
> Should the "judgement" rest on whether people respond to your request
> to remove you from their list?
but, as someone else has pointed out, if you respond, you risk your
Email address being confirmed as active and passed on to other
spamlists
> Surely if someone sends you such a message and you request a removal
> and subsequently hear no more that would suffice?
No, I prefer not to receive unsolicited _bulk_ Email
> Isn't the Internet as good a place for "farming information" as it is
> for others to farm ones address?
I think the issue is the right to consent and to not to have "opt
out" used to gain a "right"
> I know I have received many good "pointers" from unsolicited mail and
> now have a substantial number of "favourites" pointing to such sites
> ready for future or occasional use.
Good for you.
> I must also say that most, if not all, "one-time-spammers" in my
> experience seem to have responded well when requested to remove us
> from their lists.
Good for you again,
> Abuse must be prevented, I agree, but we must also retain as much as
> we can of the huge potential that the open-ness of the internet
> represents.
>
> It isn't a select club.
Nothing I said suggested it was or that I was objecting to openess
any more than I would advocate preventing anyone going into public
places without a knife and bullet proof jacket as a way to cut
homicides. The issue that interests me is "what's legal?",
specifically, is this man right in thinking he was legal in DPA terms
or am I right in thinking he wasn't?
C--
Chris Evans <[log in to unmask]>
Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy,
Rampton Hospital; Associate R&D Director,
Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust;
Hon. SL Institute of Psychiatry
*** My views are my own and not representative
of those institutions ***
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