Phorm and consent

[Ian Batten]

On 10 Mar 08, at 1742, Peter Tomlinson wrote:
> ago I used an accountant whose office was in Wales, even though my  
> business was in England). I asked them why, and they admitted that  
> they buy lists of email addresses off the internet.

Our former parent company kindly maintain an MX record for our former  
name.

We used that domain name from 1988 to 1993.  It had, at peak, about  
twenty externally visible users.

We get several hundred items of spam per day to it, which we feed  
straight into the Bayesian classifier.  As few spammers have archives  
of mail dating back to the early Major years, I assume they're buying  
bogus lists.

I see some assure us that we'd opted in on a webpage. The domain in  
question largely predates the concept of `webpage' and when it was in  
use the mail was delivered using either UUCP or X.400(88): I don't  
recall ever using that domain with SMTP.

I've sold the domain we used from 1993 to 1995 --- for 25K! --- so I  
don't know how much spam that's getting.  Historically we got less on  
that, I think.

ian