[p2p-research] is the use of an opt-out consent request ethically offensive.

[Samuel Rose]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> some of you may have gotten the invitation letter to join a new mailing
> list, which I forwarded a few days ago. These invitations are sent out in
> batches by Sam.
>
> So far, we are getting a few opt out requests, but we did get one angry
> letter from a free software advocate, saying this was ethically offensive
> and unreasonable,
>
> I would like to know the reactions of the community for this, which might be
> useful for the future,
>


I have to agree with you Michel, that there's no ethical problem that
I can see with sending messages in bulk to people who've expressed
interest in P2P Foundation, and offering an opt-out way to discontinue
those messages. If we just kept sending messages to people who
expressed that they do not want to receive, then yes that is
unethical.


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