{"id":12003,"date":"2009-12-04T11:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T09:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12003"},"modified":"2009-12-04T11:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T09:42:30","slug":"spam-it-should-be-opt-in-not-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/04\/spam-it-should-be-opt-in-not-opt-out\/","title":{"rendered":"SPAM : It should be opt in, not opt out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail reports that environmental commissioner turned his attention towards piles of SPAM<\/a> – advertising leaflets distributed by numerous companies to people’s house, mailboxes, and cars. \u00a0The initiative to regulate this is very welcome. \u00a0However:<\/p>\n

Theopemptou insists that a law should be passed to regulate leaflet distribution in streets, cars and post boxes in order to protect the public and prevent the pile-up of waste. One possible measure he recommended was the creation of a special stamp that people could put on their cars, which would indicate that they do not wish to receive advertising material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that SPAM should be opt in, not opt out. \u00a0In other words, it’s the people who WISH to receive the advertising leaflets should indicate that they want to, not the other way around. \u00a0You can see how well it works in email vs. RSS and Twitter. \u00a0In emails, people just send you loads of junk with an option to unsubscribe from it. \u00a0First of all, you already received the junk. Secondly, you need to receive the junk to get an option to unsubscribe. \u00a0That’s just not fair. \u00a0 It doesn’t work. \u00a0Opt out. \u00a0In RSS and Twitter it’s the opt in. \u00a0You don’t get anything until you actually subscribe or follow. \u00a0Which is all up to you. \u00a0And that’s how it should be.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail reports that environmental commissioner turned his attention towards piles of SPAM – advertising leaflets distributed by numerous companies to people’s house, mailboxes, and cars. \u00a0The initiative to regulate this is very welcome. \u00a0However: Theopemptou insists that a law should be passed to regulate leaflet distribution in streets, cars and post boxes in order … Continue reading SPAM : It should be opt in, not opt out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[577,314],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-law","tag-spam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15015,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/02\/biggest-ever-road-safety-campaign-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":12003,"position":0},"title":"Biggest-ever road safety campaign in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: CYPRUS yesterday launched what was described as the biggest road safety campaign in the eastern Mediterranean involving the printing of over a million leaflets aimed at locals and tourists.The leaflets in several languages explaining the island\u2019s traffic codes, will be placed in planes, ships, rental cars, hotels\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10475,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/13\/new-perspective-for-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":12003,"position":1},"title":"New perspective for SPAM","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Not to give anyone any ideas, but I just had an enlightment. 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