[LINK] RFI: 'mailing list update'

Thu Apr 8 08:36:52 EST 2004

This is an interestingly different approach to that being taken by T3
Direct, an Australian based spammer for business seminars.

They claim that if you fail to be asked to be removed from their lists
then you consent to being included as you have previously received spam
from them.

Personally I believe that their interpretation is incorrect, especially
as they are sending emails to me to addresses that I have never used.

At least with your email it is "opt-in" whereas with T3 it is "opt-out"

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 22:01, Roger Clarke wrote:
> Am I being naive?
> 
> I've received a small cluster of emails from miscellaneous companies 
> over the last couple of days, claiming to be stimulated by the Spam 
> Act implementation date.
> 
> Ever the sceptic, I assumed they were spam, or scam.
> 
> But a couple were from people like the Australian Institute of 
> Company Directors.  (I'm not a member, but I've been on premises in 
> Sydney that purported to be AICD, and they *seemed* like what they 
> were supposed to be.  'If it's in George St, it *must* be true').
> 
> So I began to wonder if maybe these were real emails, emanating from 
> real organisations, which were taking their responsibilities under 
> Australian law quite seriously.
> 
> I've pored over a couple of them, and haven't detected any nasties.
> 
> Below is the text of an email I received this evening (less a few 
> lines of stupid filler-gifs), followed by the html.
> 
> A Link Institute Bronze Award goes to anyone who can show me that I'm 
> a naive old fool and that there's more to this than meets my eye.
> 
> 
> >From: "CommandHub" <maillist at commandhub.com>
> >To: "Roger Clarke" <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
> >Subject: mailing list update
> >Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:15:55 +1000
> >
> >In compliance with the new anti-spam legislation this email is to 
> >clarify your inclusion in our mailing list.
> >
> >Unless we receive your positive response, via the link below, your 
> >email address will be automatically removed from this mailing list.
> >
> >With a major new release of the CommandHub system later this month, 
> >which includes new Board / Committee features as well as significant 
> >'data room' and 'deal room' functionality, we trust you will wish to 
> >continue receiving our quarterly updates.
> >
> ><mailto:subscribe at commandhub.com?Subject=Subscribe>click here if you 
> >wish to remain on the CommandHub mailing list
> 
> 
> 
> <x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" charset=""><html>
> <head>
>  <!-- <DEFANGED_STYLE type="text/css">
> p { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 
> 12px; color: #000000}
> .nav { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 
> 11px; color: #3333cc}
>  --> </DEFANGED_STYLE>
> </head>
> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" 
> marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
> 
> <center>
> <br>
> <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
> 	<tr><td colspan=5 height=1 bgcolor=#c0c0c0><DEFANGED_IMG 
> src="http://www.commandhub.com/news/images/spacer.gif" width=600 
> height=1></td></tr>
> 	<tr valign="top">
> 	<td width=1 bgcolor=#c0c0c0><DEFANGED_IMG 
> src="http://www.commandhub.com/news/images/spacer.gif" width=1></td>
> 	<td width=598>
> 	<table width="598" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
> 		<tr valign="top">
> 		<td width=10></td>
> 		<td width="578" align="right">
> 	     	<a href="http://www.commandhub.com" 
> target="_new"><DEFANGED_IMG 
> src="http://www.commandhub.com/news/images/chlogo_small.jpg"
> width="100" height="58" vspace="5" border="0"></a>
>         	</td>
> 		<td width="10"></td>
> 		</tr>
> 		<tr valign="top">
> 		<td width=10></td>
> 		<td width="578">
>       		<p align="justify">In compliance with the new 
> anti-spam legislation this email is to clarify your inclusion in our 
> mailing list.
>       		<p align="justify">Unless we receive your positive 
> response, via the link below, your email address will be 
> automatically removed from this mailing list.
>       		<p align="justify">With a major new release of the 
> CommandHub system later this month, which includes new Board / 
> Committee features as well as significant 'data room' and 'deal room' 
> functionality, we trust you will wish to continue receiving our 
> quarterly updates.
>       		<p align="center"><br><a 
> href="mailto:subscribe at commandhub.com?Subject=Subscribe">click here 
> if you wish to remain on the CommandHub mailing list</a><br>
>         	<br><br>
>         	</td>
> 		<td width="10"></td>
> 		</tr>
> 		</table>
> 	<td width=1 bgcolor=#c0c0c0><DEFANGED_IMG 
> src="http://www.commandhub.com/news/images/spacer.gif" width=1 
> height=1></td>
>          </tr>
> 	</table>
> <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
> 	<tr valign="top">
> 	<td><a href="http://www.commandhub.com" target="_new"><DEFANGED_IMG 
> src="http://www.commandhub.com/news/images/newstop.jpg" width="600" 
> height="71" border="0"></a>
> 	</td>
> 	</tr>
> 	</table>
> </center>
> </body>
> </html>
> </x-html>
-- 
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com>
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