Re: ActiveAgent

Kim Davies (kim@staff.iinet.net.au)
Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:23:00 +0800

Quoting HipCrime:
|
| Glad you find ActiveAgent to be "fascinating". The issue of
| "unsolicited" mailings is a thorny one. When people put a
| MAILTO button onto their published webpage, they have
| published their Email address. This has the effect of
| SOLICITING messages from people that they do not know and
| could not have expected to hear from.

If someone had their address in a phone book, would you consider
it fine to send unsolicited mail to them too?

Also, a person's email address could be on a web page of someone
else. I could go and put <A HREF="mailto:innocent.user@someplace.com">
on my web page - that doesn't mean this user has condoned publishing
it, nor that they want unsolicited email.

kim

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