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

[Michel Bauwens]

Dan,

thanks for the suggestions, I will be thinking of simplifing the addresses
in the sigfile

sam, how would we do that, to invite people to join the list from our
sigfiles, what correct address to use?

Michel

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri at danbri.org> wrote:

> Hi Michel,
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:25 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.
>
> [snip]
>
> Ok so this is something of an aside, but if growing the new mailing
> list is key, how about rationalising the list of URIs in your email
> signature (and the standard signature for this list too, perhaps).
> Lots of people get to read this and it's a nice low-hassle way of
> drawing people in...
>
> > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  -
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
> >
> > Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss:
> > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org
> >
> > Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens;
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> >
> > Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > p2presearch mailing list
> > p2presearch at listcultures.org
> > http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org
>
> There's quite a lot going on there already, including two different
> links for the Foundation, a Think tank, a collection of social network
> activity stream sites, and a mailing list (this one). It's almost a
> Web page in itself. If this url list were shrunk down to a
> 'Foundation' and 'Personal site' couple of URLs, it would make room
> for a simple clear 'call to action' link, eg. "Join our announcements
> mailing list for monthly updates <url>" or similar.
>
> I can see why opt-outs upset people. One way to balance that is to
> begin very clearly up front with "You are receiving this mail because
> you have previously expressed an interest in X. If you are no longer
> interested, or are receiving this in error, <url>".
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
> ps. re pulling other people into groups, the recent Facebook fuss
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/207305/facebook_groups_prank_shows_problem_with_default_optin.html
> might be interesting.
>



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