[clug] [For Sale] Novell / IBM 1-day Linux Technical Workshop
Tomasz Ciolek
tmc at dreamcraft.com.au
Sat Jun 26 12:02:09 GMT 2004
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:47:37PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
>
> I was told about some of the implications of this law recently and it
> became suddenly clear to me why the law should stay out of technical
> problems. This bill is going to make it much more difficult for
> companies/organisations to email people. It potentially creates
> problems for any mailing lists.
Kim, perhaps you should get familiar with the law, and see what it
really means.
> Look spam, real spam these days, has fake headers. Any email with a
> real return address has a "Functional unsubscribe facility".
Does it? I beg to differ. But thats just me.
> Technically 2. implies 3.
Technically and in terms of the laws are two different things.
> Mikal's reference:
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2004-February/009942.html
> makes it clear that you can turn off all commercial messages using the
> mailman options:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/linux
> Do it now anyone who doesn't want to get them.
> So this list supplies it's own "Functional unsubscribe facility" as
> well, for those who make use of it, and Chris did make use of it.
If it does simply mention it in the message. Problem solved.
Tomasz
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