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According to that definition, you're wrong: Mailchimp doesn't fulfill the first condition. In my experience, Mailchimps interface puts heavy emphasis on having
by bildung 10y ago
According to that definition, you're wrong: Mailchimp doesn't fulfill the first condition. In my experience, Mailchimps interface puts heavy emphasis on having opt-in proof for the addresses you use, having to include unsubscribe links and sender's postal addresses etc. Yes, they don't technically enforce it, but how could they do that without also preventing legitimate use cases like importing addresses from a competitor's service?
- Animats 10y agoNo. After a transaction is complete, any further communication from the seller is spam. MailChimp treats a previous transaction as a license to spam. MailChimp says they're in the "email marketing" business and writes about "campaigns". That's spam.
- criddell 10y agoThere are some easy things they could to though. Cory Doctorow had this exchange with them: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/641660268720689152 https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/641660268720689152 I think Doctorow's request was entirely reasonable.
- Animats 10y agoIf they gave you enough info to opt out effectively, people would do it. Also, then people could check up on them, checking the list of claimed "opt ins" for spam trap addresses. Giving the user that access would allow users to definitively catch spammers and mailing services in lies, and could lead to prosecutions under the CAN-SPAM act.