> No it doesn't. There is no core privacy premise of the internet, and certainly not one that everybody used it signed up for. I agree that it doesn't break a

> No it doesn't. There is no core privacy premise of the internet, and certainly not one that everybody used it signed up for. I agree that it doesn't break a core promise of the internet. It does, however, potentially break the law. To be clear, it doesn't necessarily break it. But if the author actually has never given his email address to anyone who explicitly stated that it could be resold or transferred to a partner, then this violates CAN-SPAM.