Excellent point. I think we're the only two that saw that part of the article. Question for UT. If you sold the e-mail addresses of your faculty, stidents and staff to this company and presumably others, is that not de-facto permission for them to use the addresses to send e-mail? I hate spam as much as the next person, but making money by selling your e-mail addresses and then claiming damage from such action is pretty scuzzy as well. -- I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot, he'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.--P. J. O'Rourke
reply to NPGMBR I agree. I was hoping someone else noticed this. If UT sold them the e-mail addresses then UT should accept the e-mails. Otherwise, UT makes money selling the addresses but then blocks the e-mails? That seems more illegal/unethical then sending the e-mails in this case.
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Question for UT. If you sold the e-mail addresses of your faculty, stidents and staff to this company and presumably others, is that not de-facto permission for them to use the addresses to send e-mail? I hate spam as much as the next person, but making money by selling your e-mail addresses and then claiming damage from such action is pretty scuzzy as well.