I'm not a spammer, I just need to blast these potential customers

Re:I'm not a spammer, I just need to blast these potential c... by zaidf on Sunday September 05, 2010 @11:07PM (#1665732)

Wow - this post is so factually misleading for vast majority readers not living in Canada.

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Re:I'm not a spammer, I just need to blast these potential c... by peteforde on Sunday September 05, 2010 @11:12PM (#1665738)

I'm a Canadian. Not really planning on normalizing my writing to American laws just yet, sorry.

For what it's worth, only a small portion of my article deals with Canadian spam laws. The majority of the links are to MailChimp FAQ pages, and they are an American company.

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Re:I'm not a spammer, I just need to blast these potential c... by zaidf on Sunday September 05, 2010 @11:21PM (#1665756)

Considering you posted this to HN, you have at least some responsibility to take your audience's location into account. I'd suggest a little note stating you're referring to Canadian law.

Honestly I am not certain about the point of your post. If it was that "hey make sure your unsubscribes stay under 1%", there are easiesr ways to communicate that without bashing small businesses or linking to spam laws local to your country.

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Re:I'm not a spammer, I just need to blast these potential c... by peteforde on Sunday September 05, 2010 @11:34PM (#1665774)

Yesterday, I didn't realize that companies like MailChimp had 1% tolerance, and I was hoping the article would start a conversation; it did. It seems as though this is a common enough problem that people are tweeting about my article, regardless of where they live.

You know that there is a huge start-up culture in Toronto, right? Hacker News has hundreds of Canadian readers.

Anyhow, unspace.ca implies Canada to me. I'm sorry you were confused.

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