Over the last couple months I’ve been threatened three times with lawsuits from people who are angry that they keep receiving an e-mail newsletter that I put out weekly. The problem is, I’ve never actually e-mailed my newsletter to any of these people directly.
Rather, they are subscribed to various e-mail lists that I post the newsletter to. In each case, though, I only post the newsletter because the person who maintains and/or moderates the list has requested I do so.
But there are quite a few people who just don’t understand that distinction. Even when all e-mail that goes out from the list has the list name included in the subject line, I still get e-mail from people wondering why I’m spamming them. Some of them still don’t get it after I explain that I’m not e-mailing them directly and that if they think the newsletter is inappropriate, they should take that up with the list owner/moderator.
Pain in the neck.
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