Hi, I had an intersting question 1

[UkMister]

Hi,

I had an intersting question asked by one of my users the other day.
They had received an email about something work related. They could also see all the other addressees that the mail had been sent to. A lot of people on this list would also be interested or involved in projects the we are currently undertaking (are you following??)
The user asked me how we would stand from a legal/ethical point of view if she were to send emails out to these people on this list, even though they hadn't given us permission etc to use their email addresses. The information she would send would be relevant to these people.
Would it still be classed as spam? Would it be ethically right to send to a bunch of people you didn't know even if you thought they might find the information of interest?
I had to tell her that I was sorry but I couldn't answer her question.

Any ideas?

ukmister

 

[manarth]

lol - thread717-514043 has some views on spam...

firstly, you can check out Cauce (

http://www.cauce.org)

and take a look at their SMTP banner suggestion - it has (to a certain extent) been implemented by some organisations...

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