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Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 08:19:44PM -0400,
John Esak blabbed on about:
> Don't know exactly what you mean by "mass emails".  In any case, your
> limitation is going to be your ISP. They are usually shutting down anything
> over 50 or 100 cc's. or bcc's.  

That assumes you use your ISP's SMTP server.  If you have an ISP that
allows use of outbound SMTP traffic from your own hosts, you can set up
an MTA locally and use that.  It's fairly common for that traffic to
be blocked on residential accounts, although not as common on business
accounts.

> Otherwise, it's pretty easy, and you are only sending one email at a
> time, so no one can ever consider it "mass" or "junk" email.  At least, I
> wouldn't think so... Or hope so.

Well, that's skirting the issue by splitting hairs, really.  If one is
sending 5000 emails, that's mass mailing, whether it's done with one RCPT
TO at a time, ten at a time, or fifty at a time.  You're still sending a
message to 5000 people, so "mass" applies in any event, IMHO.

As for "junk", I think it's more helpful to look at it as whether it's
unsolicited/opt-out, or if it's opt-in.  By opt-in, I mean -truly-
opt-in.  A lot of spam claims it's opt-in, but most assuredly isn't
transparently opt-in--usually places that bought/acquired addresses from a
partner company, like WinZip's creators and now Corel do, or like PCTools
does.  But if it's truly opt-in through a direct subscription or direct,
consensual business relationship, then it's definitely not spam or junk.

If it's post-receipt opt-out, or even unsolicited, then I would consider it
junk.  I specify post-receipt opt-out, because I would consider something
like having the opportunity to uncheck a box on a registration form that
says, "Yes, I'd like to receive [insert description]," up-front to be
equivalent to opt-in, since you can handle it pre-receipt.

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