How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam?

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 16, 2008 @07:37PM from the engendering-ill-will dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The small travel agent that I work for recently received an email from one of our competitors with several thousand of their potential customers in the 'To:' and 'Cc:' fields. My boss now wants to use these addresses to send unsolicited advertisements. I would like to convince him not to do this, as I believe that this practice is morally wrong and legally dubious. However, morals don't go very far in the business world, so I'm asking Slashdot: what business-oriented arguments can I use to dissuade my boss from spamming?"

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Re:this will go completely against the grain here by vistatip · 2008-06-16 20:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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My first thought was with a hammer... by shanen · 2008-06-17 00:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Are you really sure you need that particular job that badly?

For what little it's worth, I once encountered a similar moral dilemma, and I gave notice immediately. I haven't regretted it--and I'm pretty sure his business went down the tubes, too. At least I never heard of it again.

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