On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:51:20AM -0500, Laura Robinson wrote:
>Did you know if you post your email address on Mems-Talk Org, and some
>person/company sends you an email, it is not considered SPAM. I am

Yes, it is spam, because Frank never consented to have his e-mail used
for such a purpose.  Subscribers to the mems-talk list provide their
e-mail addresses for the purpose of receiving messages posted by other
subscribers.  That does not imply that they want to receive random
advertising, MEMS-related or not, and in fact the list charter states
"Mailing list postings are copyrighted by the respective poster.  List
postings and the list archives are not intended for commercial or any
other activity."

Unfortunately, there aren't many technical measures to prevent
extracting e-mail addresses.  We try to catch Web spiders crawling the
archives for e-mail addresses, but the archives also need to be
indexed by Google and other search engines, so there's a limit to
what's possible.

Please see part 2 of the news.admin.net-abuse.email FAQ for more
information about the ethics (or lack thereof) of spam:
http://www.spamfaq.net/spam-evils.shtml .

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A.M. Kuchling                     [email protected]
Our duty, if not our conscience, is clear.
    -- President Borusa, in "Arc of Infinity"