they are responsible for one great achievement, the fact that people finally begin to understand that you cannot trust a program unless you know exactly what it does, ie have access to its source code! Some years ago I was more than happy to surf in tucows and download shareware utils for various purposes. Now I never download anything unless it's open source, for I know that you cannot hide spyware in open source software.
I suppose that providing a non-working unsubscribe link does violate anti-spam laws, indeed.
The real problem, however, is that such laws allow someone to add you to a list without asking. So maybe unsubscribing a user when he clicks the link and then subscribing him to 10 other lists, all of them with unsubscribe links, is still legal!
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and I know I'll be modded down to hell, but don't you think that in these photos Gates looks almost... sexy?!?
they are responsible for one great achievement, the fact that people finally begin to understand that you cannot trust a program unless you know exactly what it does, ie have access to its source code! Some years ago I was more than happy to surf in tucows and download shareware utils for various purposes. Now I never download anything unless it's open source, for I know that you cannot hide spyware in open source software.
Don't worry, I'm currently writing the "Windows on a Wal-Mart Balance Notebook HOWTO".
I suppose that providing a non-working unsubscribe link does violate anti-spam laws, indeed.
The real problem, however, is that such laws allow someone to add you to a list without asking. So maybe unsubscribing a user when he clicks the link and then subscribing him to 10 other lists, all of them with unsubscribe links, is still legal!