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"Gene Kim-Eng" <techpubs -at- genek -dot- com> wrote in message news:212790 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
> As far as business-to-business marketing messages being "legitimate,"
unless
> I specifically signed up to receive them, as far as I'm concerned they're
spam,
> and I let the filter kill, blacklist and bounce them back to sender.
People who
> send out unsolicited marketing emails and tell themselves they're not
spammers
> are just deluding themselves.
>
Hear hear!
"inadvertently opting-in" indeed......
If it's not an explicit, clear choice--in other words, not buried in mounds
of surrounding tiny type and in plain language--then it's a sneaky
underhanded trick to drive traffic and increase circulation.
</soapbox>
