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[I thank Ben for replying. Now, has anyone received Godiva marketing email that will let us take him up on his offer? :) The Association for Interactive Marketing, FYI, is an independent subsidiary of the Direct Marketing Association. Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03351.html --Declan] --- From: "Ben Isaacson" <ben@interactivehq.org> To: <declan@well.com> Subject: RE: Time to boycott Godiva for spamming customers? By D. Touretzky Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:03:00 -0500 Organization: AIM Declan, The gentleman posting does not seem to know the common definition of spam, nor actually read the posted Godiva privacy policy. If he bought something, then the email is not unsolicited as there is now a prior business relationship. In addition, the policy clearly states this fact (which he could have read before buying) and makes it known that they will not share that person's email with another party. What's more -- show me an email solicitation from Godiva that doesn't have an opt-out option and I'll buy all of your readers a box of chocolates! Best, Ben Ben A. Isaacson Executive Director Association for Interactive Marketing --------------------------------- 1430 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10018 Direct: 212-790-1405 Main: 888-337-0008 F)212-391-9233 http://www.imarketing.org (NEW SITE!) --------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------