A belated, thank you, for the detailed message, Megan. I can use your message as support - and you mention things I hadn't thought of. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:listowners- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Megan Zurawicz > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 9:43 PM > To: listowners@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LO] subscribers must accept list messages > > To a great extent, it comes under implied consent: just as you can't > post to a mailing list, and then say "RootsWeb, I did not give you > permission to share that email with the subscribers of that list, > and so > I am going to sue you for copyright violation." > > Posting to an email list has some implied permissions built in. > > Permission to distribute to other subscribers. > Permission to archive, if the list is archived. > > Subscribing to the list also has some implied permissions built in: > > Permission to send me the posts from the list I subscribed to, in > whatever mode (if there's a choice) I chose [i.e., list or digest]. > > There's an implied request to be sent email by subscribing. > > And in that implied request, there's an implied promise not to > report > that requested email as spam as well as an implied promise not to > try to > break how the list works - and such behaviors as blocking posters or > setting your email account not to accept mail from fellow > subscribers > is, essentially, an attempt to break how the list works. > > You don't get to make your being on the list a bunch of work for > other > people (such as expecting other subscribers or the admin to jump > through > the hoops of requesting permission to email you). > > I would bet that all that various implied whatnot is not exclusive > to > RootsWeb, but is the standard practice anywhere mailing lists are > hosted. I've certainly never seen a venue where it is not. > > --pig > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LISTOWNERS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message