Re: Continuent & pgsql-announce ... please do not approve

Has anyone gotten ahold of them about it, with the possibility of having 
them banned from our lists as a result of inaction?

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, David Fetter wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:24:08PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
>> David Fetter wrote:
>>> Opt-out is what spammers allege they honor.  The problem is that
>>> "honor" and "spammer" only belong in a sentence with a negation in
>>> between.
>>
>> I am currently subscribed to their marketing list at two e-mail
>> addresses.  I just unsubscribed one of them using the link at the
>> bottom of the message.  The next time I see an announcement go out
>> on the other address, I'll be happy to report on whether the other
>> was was removed or not.  Since, as you say, one component of whether
>> a company is doing the worst of the common spammer behaviors is
>> whether they honor opt-out requests, I think it would be reasonable
>> to actually test that before breaking out the pitchforks.
>
> If there weren't any history, this would be a reasonable test.  There
> is a history, it's years long, and it doesn't give any reasonable hope
> that what you've done will work this time, as opposed to all the other
> times people have tried it.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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