Re: SPAM is a two-edged sword

["David L. Wasley" <david.wasley () UCOP EDU>]

Basic Advice:  Don't go there!  SPAM is wrong regardless of the cause
and if you try to differentiate you'll only end up in a morass of
confusing special cases.

Behind your question is a topic for another list: what is an
appropriate alternative to mass e-mailing?  Is there active
discussion of this somewhere?

       David

PS: I recently had occasion to send an important business-related
note to a group of 30 or so folks that I work with - my ISP blocked
it!
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At 5:09 PM -0400 on 6/26/03, Lance Jordan wrote:

> Greetings to all from NJ.  (Summer weather has finally reached the
> Garden State and I left my shorts and flip flops at home.)   :-)
>
> The dilemma of dealing with SPAM.  Has anyone come across this
> situation?  If so, how did you handle it?
>
> The issue:  We have a department within the university that is a
> self-supporting organization with the mission to provide management
> instruction and outreach to the state.  The department wants to
> market its services via email to a larger audience than just alumni
> or former students of their programs.  They intend to purchase email
> lists from 3d party vendors.  (Meaning they will be sending email to
> persons with no affiliation with the university)
>
> The university already has an anti-SPAM policy.  Basically, sending
> the same email message to more than 50 addresses is considered a
> violation, unless sent via a mechanism like "listserv" where the
> users can control their participation.
>
> One the one hand this department needs to be competitive and they do
> provide a valuable service to the local community and state.  On the
> other hand we view SPAM as an unethical practice and with enough
> complaints the university can be "blacklisted."
>
> Thanks in advance.  Your feedback is appreciated.
>
> --
> Lance D
>
> Lance D. Jordan
>
> Director, Information Protection & Security
>
> Rutgers University Computing Services
>
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