On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 00:04:25 +0100 Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And you keep moving along the same track - the usual reaction of some > company after having pulled back a bloody stump and enjoyed the pile of > explanations of the reasons why opt-out is *NOT* *ACCEPTABLE*, *EVER* > is along the lines of "OK, we'll just spam everyone in our database once > and ask them to opt-in - that must be OK, right?" But a single spam that can be ignored is so much better than being automatically added to something that you have to do work to get out of. We get spammed a lot to participate in surveys and such. But for those one time emails, they never bothered me. Sometimes, I actually do participate. -- Steve
