FC: Should journalists be peeved at email address harvesting?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:15:44 -0400
From: "Paul Levy" <PLEVY () citizen org>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: At the risk of reopening the spam campaign debate

I wonder what people think about this article, which raises both the question
of Uri Nissan's right to run a business under his own name AND the email 
campaign in which he is encouraging supporters to write to journalists to 
urge them to cover the story, using an automated form on Uri Nissan's web 
site.  The emails are harvested from media sites which, presumably, list 
the addresses as a way to contact the journalists.

Do our anti-spam crown consider this as objectionable?  Or, is the listing 
of the email address on the media site an implicit invitation to send such 
messages?

Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/litigation/litigation.html

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WHILE SALON FEATURES THE BATTLE OVER NISSAN.COM
Salon runs a story on the long-running battle over the
Nissan.com domain.  The case pits Nissan the automaker
against Uzi Nissan, the owner of a computer company based in
North Carolina.
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2002/06/03/nissan/index.html 




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