Don's decided that we are in violent agreement with each other: "It's all spam" he writes.
Speaking of spam, I'm sad to see my former employer give way to whole hearted mass-emailing. Deseret Book has given their customers email addresses to LDS Living and Sparklist for daily commercial messages. That's not the occasional (read: couple of times a year) that most people would have been planning on.
I expect they'll be revising their privacy policy soon, at least to modify the paragraph that reads:
Will personal information be shared with outside entities? No. Deseret Book Company will use the information you provide us for internal purposes only. We will not sell, rent or trade the information to any outside entity. However, if you participate in DeseretBook.com Auctions, your email address will be available to other buyers and sellers to finalize transactions and to conduct other auction related correspondence, and we reserve the right to share your contact information (name, mailing address, etc.) with other auction users who have transactions with you, as we deem necessary and appropriate.
The ironic thing, I'm told, is that for the first couple of days of daily spamming this week, the third-party spam filtering service Deseret Book uses was scoring the daily commercial messages as 99.9%-certain spam and blocking them. Poetic, I think.
—Michael A. Cleverly
Friday, July 01, 2005 at 19:07
As if I needed another reason to not like DB. I noticed that they had started to spam my father's email. I guess I better help unsubscribe him since I was the one that set up his DB account when I worked there.
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