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Re:Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal by kaoD on Monday April 21, 2014 @12:41PM (#7621967)
> What you're describing is just so different from real spam.

Not at all, check this other post of mine on why I think it's still spam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7621722

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Re:Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal by logicallee on Monday April 21, 2014 @01:48PM (#7622458)
The reply to that post states pretty clearly why you're wrong.

I'm curious though - after you give out your email address, which you don't consider "soliciting" in this sense but I do, how do you imagine "soliciting" any specific communication?

Nothing can possibly be 'solicited' under your definition.

I just don't get why you even give out an email address, if anything you get thereafter is still considered unsolicited.

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Re:Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal by __david__ on Monday April 21, 2014 @04:46PM (#7623704)
> I just don't get why you even give out an email address

Because you pretty much have to buy anything online nowadays.

My personal solution is to use the '+' trick to give customized emails out to everyone and then to block them at the SMTP level in my /etc/mail/access file if they don't stop sending mails after the 1st unsubscribe attempt.

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Re:Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal by kaoD on Monday April 21, 2014 @01:58PM (#7622532)
> The reply to that post states pretty clearly why you're wrong.

And then states pretty clearly why I'm not in his "EDIT" which you chose to ignore.

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