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

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks marco, very useful ..

keep also in mind, this mail is sent to people who mostly already contacted
me (without permission [?] )

Michel

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:26 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 12:25:44 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens
> (michelsub2004 at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Myself, I can't really see the difference between asking for your
> > consent and making it easy to join, and asking for your consent plus
> > asking you an extra effort to join,
>
> the concrete difference is that the first alternative is not
> "asking". It's taking decision for others.
>
> Opt-out is "I have already done your thinking for you and concluded
> that you will like this newsletter, please do the effort to tell me if
> I was wrong"
>
> Or at least this is the way it is considered by many people of all
> sorts and why it rubs them the wrong way. I really think that the fact
> that the person who complained also happens to be a free software
> advocate is really just an irrelevant coincidence.
>
> Probably calling opt-out always unethical is an exhageration, it's
> just a sensible issue. It can be indeed be a courtesy if you are
> _sure_ that the receiver is interested. I, for example, in this
> particular case, AM happy that I had nothing else to do to receive the
> newsletter. It's not a black or white issue.
>
> You just can't be sure that it will always be that way, so you have to
> be prepared both to the fact that there will surely be a few reactions
> like that from **any** very large group of people you ask to opt-out
> of anything; and that there will even be people who feel the same, but
> instead of bothering to answer will simply mark your address as a spam
> source and never see any more mail from you.
>
> Marco
>
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