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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:33:05PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:24:37PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > What exactly does "established business relationship" mean in the > > context of (for example) the NANOG mailing list? (Note that once there > > is a business relationship, there's no requirement that the solicitation > > has to be related - I continually get calls from various financial > > institutions plugging other services) > > Sadly I think we'll always be getting "spammed" by people we do > business with, and I don't think there's any way to write the rules > so this doesn't happen. Some have some comments on this in Australia are at: http://www.caube.org.au/australia.htm Basically the positions from the government and industry bodies over here have been that commercial e-mail must be opt-in if there is no existing business relationship, otherwise opt-out. David. -- David Luyer Phone: +61 3 9674 7525 Network Manager P A C I F I C Fax: +61 3 9699 8693 Pacific Internet (Australia) I N T E R N E T Mobile: +61 4 1111 2983 http://www.pacific.net.au/ NASDAQ: PCNTF
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