Well, unfortunately, although I don't like the mailings, they *can* claim the "existing business relationship". It would be nice, as I've already mentioned, if they'd let people opt-in when they registered a domain.
I've seen the "existing business relationship" used in several new laws and AUP's. What I'm wondering is if anyone has a feel for how far this goes. Let me give some examples: 1) I buy a general electric light bulb, can they now spam me to buy a locomotive? 2) I buy a circuit from MFS. Can UUNet now spam me to buy internet service? (Reminder, Worldcom owns MFS, UUNet, and many others.) 3) I buy a ford truck, can I now get spam to buy a Lincoln? I think you see where I'm going with this. How far does a business relationship extend? -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org