Re: [External] Re: How do we feel about conferences scraping addresses from the IETF?

["Kevin A. McGrail" <kevin.mcgrail-ietf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting question and discussion.  I thought I would mention because 
the question of "is this spam?" comes up a lot, the Apache SpamAssassin 
project uses the litmus test of "consent" not "content".  We really 
don't care what the content is of an email between two adults who 
consent to communicate.

So scraping emails from mailing lists and using those addresses for any 
purpose even to send the cure to cancer, we would consider spam.  If you 
have spamples showing this behavior, we can look at adding them to 
RBLs.  LMK, KAM