[Please reply to debian-vote] On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:03:20AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > So, if he is using Debian machines, it seems he may already be > violating the Debian machine AUP. Certainly if I were doing something > that sent automated mail to people that was not opt-in, I would feel > compelled to respond promptly to requests to never send mail to > people, regardless of the form of those requests. > > Have you considered sending to debian-admin or abuse or whatever the > appropriate contact is and formally complaining that you are receiving > spam from a Debian machine? If debian-admin makes a decision that > what he is doing does not violate the AUP or if debian-admin fails to > make a decision about a reasonable complaint formally presented to > them, I would likely second a GR overturning this (non)determination. <http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup> You may not advertise your WWW pages, or cause another person to advertise it, by techniques that would be classified as abuse if they were carried out from a Debian Account. This includes, but is not limited to, bulk emailing and excessive news posting. Such action may be treated under the appropriate DMUP as if it had been done from the Account, or as a violation of this DMUP or both. I request a ruling from the Debian-Admin team on whether Michael Bramer's actions constitute "bulk emailing". It is my personal opinion that it does, but that bulk emailing should be accepted under the following circumstances: 1) That the bulk emails be on a subject relevant to the Project; 2) That any such bulk emailing engine be announced at least one week in advance of its activation, to both debian-devel-announce and debian-admin; 3) That the purpose of the bulk emailing engine be specifically defined in the email in step 2; 4) That the location of the subscription list and the script(s) that operate it (or equivalent resources) be announced in the same mail as step 2 above (so that the Debian-Admin team can shut the bulk-emailing process down quickly if it goes haywire); 5) That any and all subscribers to such lists must "opt-in"; that is, they must notify the operator(s) of these bulk mailers and express an affirmative desire to receive these mails to be subscribed; 6) That the subscription list(s) not be made public (e.g., on the World Wide Web), or distributed to anyone who is not a Debian Developer; 7) That each bulk emailing engine restrict itself to the purpose described at the time of its creation. Comments? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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