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On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 00:04:25 +0100
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 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