5. Commercial communications

5.1. Sending of commercial communications

5.1.1. All commercial messages must contain a valid originating number and/or the name or identifier of the message originator.

5.1.2. Any message originator must have a facility to allow the recipient to remove his or herself from the message originator’s database, so as not to receive any further messages from that message originator.

5.1.3. Any mechanism for allowing a recipient to remove him or herself from a database must not cost more than one rand.

5.1.7. Upon request of the recipient, the message originator must, within a reasonable period of time, identify the source from which the recipient’s personal information was obtained.

5.2.1. Any commercial message is considered unsolicited (and hence spam) unless:

1. the recipient has requested the message;
2. the message recipient has a direct and recent prior commercial relationship with the message originator and would reasonably expect to receive marketing communications from the originator; or
3. the organisation supplying the originator with the recipient’s contact information has the recipient’s explicit consent to do so.

5.3.1. Members will not send or promote the sending of spam and will take reasonable measures to ensure that their facilities are not used by others for this purpose.

5.3.2. Members will provide a mechanism for dealing expeditiously with complaints about spam originating from their networks.

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From: "john mitchell" <mitch1254@hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: From: John Mitchell  

From: John Mitchell  
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Swansea SA1 3LW 
United Kingdom
Direct Line: 447031844151

Compliments!

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From: goodword@niconet.za.net
Subject: [Goodword] Good day

Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room.
She said: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see
him?"

The surgeon said, "I'm sorry. We did all we could, but your boy didn't make it."

Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer? Doesn't God care any more? Where
were you, God, when my son needed you?"

The surgeon asked, "Would you like some time alone with your son? One of the
nurses will be out in a few minutes, before he's transported to the university."

To: goodword@niconet.za.net, goodword-owner@niconet.za.net,
	coertzen@mtnloaded.co.za
Subject: Unethical mailing list owners

Jeremy jumped up as soon as he saw the mail arrive in his inbox.  He
said: "What is this message?  Is it something interesting?  Is it a
message from a friend?"

The mail client said, "I'm sorry.  I deliver what I get, and this is a
religious spam email."

Jeremy said, "Why do people get signed up to mailing lists without
their consent? Doesn't anyone have any ethical standards anymore?
Where are you, spam fliter, when I needed you most?"

The mail client asked, "Would you like some time to frame a suitable
reply?  One of the STMP servers will be waiting whenever you have
overcome your instinctive rage and write something worthy of actually
being read."

--==ooOOoo==--

Who signed me up to this mailing list?  Why did I not get a
confirmation email that would allow me to refuse?  Why can I not
easily unsubscribe from the list's web interface?

This list (and another which apparently hasn't seen any traffic) seem
to be the only things living on the niconet.za.net domain.  The
relevant bits of the whois record (public information, I wouldn't
stoop to revealing anything private in an email of this nature) is as
follows:

Domain Name            : niconet.za.net
Registered for         : Nico Coertzen
                         54 Karas Avenue
                         Vaalpark
                         1947
                         South Africa
Administrative Contact : Nico Coertzen <coertzen@mtnloaded.co.za>
                         Nico Coertzen
                         54 Karas Avenue
                         Vaalpark
                         Free State
                         1947
                         South Africa
                         +27784928570

Mr Coertzen:  Is this your list?  If not, can you soundly thump
whoever runs it?  I am highly unimpressed with this situation and
intend to take matters further if it is not resolved speedily.

Please note that I have sent this from a secondary address, as I do
not wish the address that has been subscribed to the list to be
public.

Thank you,
Jeremy

To: Hafsah Suleman <202501495@ukzn.ac.za>
Cc: <Network admin>
Subject: Re: Lift offered from Chatsworth [...] (A response to a very unwelcome email)

Good day Miss (Mr?) Suleman.

Sending a message to everyone in the Groupwise addressbook is *never* an
acceptable way to advertise *anything*.  There is a University Notice
system designed specifically for this sort of thing.

Some statistics for you:

Size of your email (including headers and attachments): 220K
Size of just the headers: 188K
Number of lines (including headers and attachments): 3247
Number of lines (just the headers): 2808
Approximate number of addresses: 4568

Now, all the mailservers and clients the message goes through have to
read and interpret all those headers.  This slows everything down quite
a bit.  For example, my PC was unresponsive for over a minute while my
mail client churned through your message.

Next is your choice of attachment.  It is *never* OK to send an
advertisement in a Word document even in the few circumstances where it
is OK to send the advertisement in the first place.  Firstly, the Word
document you sent is about five hundred times bigger than simply putting
the text in the body of your email.  Secondly, not everyone is able to
read Word documents.  I, for one, don't use Word at all and don't even
run an operating system for which Word is available.  Thirdly, even for
those people who *do* use Word, random attachments are a security risk
and an unnecessary hassle.  For more details, see my essay on the matter
at http://www.jerith.za.net/writings/notice-netiquette.html

In conclusion, everything about this email is wrong.  I hope I have
annoyed you by sending this even a fraction as much as you have annoyed
me this morning.  Have a nice day.

--J

Lift offered from Chatsworth and the surrounding Shallcross areas to University of Natal-Howard College daily.

Contact: 
072 898 0946
072 536 9173

rooijan