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

[Michel Bauwens]

I understand Marco, but I do feel there is a difference between just adding
people to marketing material, and asking them beforehand if they want to be
part of it,

as sam indicated, both sending emails to strangers, and sending emails to
people who do not want to receive it, is the furthest thing to our minds,

sam just indicated we have 1% opt-out, 1 complaint, and half a dozen happy
responses ...

Michel

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:56 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 13:38:23 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens (
> michelsub2004 at gmail.com) wrote:
> > thanks marco, very useful ..
>
> You're welcome. Only as future reference of general interest (because,
> as I already said, personally I have nothing against opt-out in this
> case!!!), I forgot to:
>
> - add that opt-out has a very bad reputation (regardless of wether
> *is* intrinsically right or wrong) simply because most people first
> see it mentioned by spammers (as in "you are now subscribed to our
> fake watches catalog, click here to opt-out")
>
> - share a link that discusses in depth the risks of opt-out:
>
>
> http://blog.blueskyfactory.com/email-marketing/harvard-business-review-is-dead-wrong-about-opt-out/
>
> marco
>
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