Re: But Facebook are not spammers

[Paul Vixie <vixie () isc org>]

ge () linuxbox org (Gadi Evron) writes:

> > ...
> ...
> So, let me understand, as the web client in in fact their client, and 
> they provide a suggestion of what text should be sent if you are too 
> lazy to write your own, then it is spam? ...

in my case, i didn't complain until a cron job at facebook resent this
"invitation" because i hadn't answered it. the initial e-mail, coming as it
does from facebook's web client, is borderline. subsequent reminders are
clearly just spam. note that all of this crap comes to addresses i've never
used for personal correspondance, and are clearly scraped out of the
facebook-user's address book, and got there as a result of that user's
other e-mail clients doing auto-scrape from mailing list postings.

this makes facebook a spammer, textbook. opt-out isn't an exemption, no
matter whether i can opt out by web or by e-mail. opt-out is 100% spam.
facebook has no relationship with me and so they can't claim acquaintance
as an exemption either. when they send me mail because one of their users
clicks "add buddy" that's borderline. when they send me followup mail
because i didn't answer, then that is spam, 100%, and inarguably so.
-- 
Paul Vixie
KI6YSY
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