OK, would you please define what you mean by "spamming" businesses?
How is me emailing businesses that might be interested in my services - I am
an individual contractor/service provider - any different from me writing to
them or phoning them.
I would suggest that the volume is something to do with it.
I am an individual not hiding behind any corporation who will respond to
every email response that I receive.
Is emailing companies or individuals in companies regarding job
opportunities spamming - and if you tell me it is then you are having a
laugh.
Nick Landau
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Perry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Fwd: Re: [data-protection] Spam and email
bugs (Long, but interesting . . )
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 12:55:57 on
> Thu, 8 Feb 2007, NICHOLAS LANDAU <[log in to unmask]> writes
>
>>I would suggest that anyone that says that any email address with a
>>person's name in it - even when contacted to a council or hospital email
>>address - is automatically personal information, is not living in the real
>>world.
>
> It's personal information alright, but the circumstances will determine
> whether or not it's a correct assumption that an email to such a person,
> addressed at a "corporate" domain, is being used in a B2B context or not.
> In some cases it will, in others (see my earlier example) it won't.
>
> Meanwhile, the fuzzy thinking that spamming businesses is OK, whereas
> spamming individuals isn't, is the unfortunate state of the current EU
> law. But spam is such a problem within the topic of Internet Governance,
> that I think this may change with time.
>
> One important test, much ignored in current debates, is whether or not the
> emails in question are "bulk". Unsolicited *bulk* email is the original
> criterion used by ISPs, before the regulators got involved.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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