[SpamCop-List] Re: Spamreport creativevenue.nl

[Cat]

Erik Logtenberg wrote:

> Dear Spamcop,

You don't really need to type "Dear SpamCop" as this is just a newsgroup 
  and not a formal letter writing situation.

> I just had a call with this customer. She says the email is a 
> "persbericht" (pressrelease), which is sent to their relations 
> (newspapers, freelance jounalists, etc). Those relations were added to 
> this mailinglist, after they explicitly gave their email addresses and 
> permission to receive the pressreleases (by phone).
> This could be considered (confirmed?) opt-in. I also pointed out to her 
> that the message had no specific opt-out feature. She promised that her 
> next pressrelease would include an opt-out feature as well.
> 
> I hope you'll find this enough action from my side.

Verbal permission is not confirmed opt in. To have confirmed opt in, 
your customer needs to send a confirmation e-mail to each address 
someone gives her. Then if the owner of the address doesn't reply to the 
confirmation, she should never ever send her newsletter to those addresses.

See http://mail-abuse.net/manage.html for more information on proper 
confirmed opt in mailing list management.

-Cat
  SpamCop user, not an admin