Ed, this will be my last post to you on this subject:
"You, on the other hand, sent out unsolicited e-mail to that list. This is known as spam, a highly frowned upon practice, as you should know."
First of all, the first message was simply giving people the opportunity to decline to receive further IDCC e-mails. Secondly, it's not SPAM because that's what the list was created for in the first place, to share IDCC stuff.
Where there is no victim, there is no crime, end of story.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
~ ~ ~ Josh Billings