blogiquette

[firecat]

If you comment on someone's blog, and need to give an e-mail address to do so, is it acceptable for them to subscribe you to their mailing list? (No notice is given of such automatic subscription in the comment area.)

I don't think it's acceptable. I'm not all that angry about it, but I'm minorly ticked and trying to decide whether to complain.




Update I did complain. The blogger responded that my winding up on zir mailing list was unintentional.

Comments

[kightp.livejournal.com]

They're not the only ones. There are countless "do-gooder" organizations out there that seem to think their Good Work is more important than my right to say "yes, I want to be on your mailing list" or "no, thanks."

I've noticed that university-based science organizations are particularly bad about this. My guess is that they see it as analagous to postal bulk mail - if they have our e-mail addresses, they see no reason not to use them. Evidently nobody has ever sat them down and explained how this kind of spam transfers the cost of advertising to the recipient and his/her mail host.