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In Germany an Imprint for a paid service is mandatory and after the ToS it seems like this is a product from a company in France? (I believe there are similar laws in France?)
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A non-marketing example: We were onboarding a large new client to our SAAS product. This process involved creating accounts for all of their employees (tens of thousands) and sending emails with an activation link. (Where they'd be able to set up their password.) Our system sends these emails in batches, and as soon as the first batch went out we got an alert from our monitoring system that our bounce rate was surgin…
This is clearly trying to solve a non-technical problem with technical means. The root problem is that AWS cancels you with too high bounce rate. The obvious solution is to talk to some AWS representative to at least temporarily not cancel you after explaining the situation. If AWS does not let you talk to them, then that's where the problem lies, not in some not cleaned up email list. It's terrible to spend a lot of…
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I think you proved the point: when the spammer send spam they think they are doing marketing.
I don't know about you, but I'm subscibed to several newsletters out of my own volition.. Are they spamming me then?
No, since you signed up on your own volition, obviously they are not unwanted emails.
But I always uncheck the newsletter etc. box and still get tons of them. From legit companies. That's spam, and goes straight to junk mail.
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Though if we follow this logic to its conclusion then using and distributing a program that cracks a trial version of software doesn't shouldn't be a copyright violation. That said I would be interested if anyone could clarify to what extent a copyright license has any legal power if you're not distributing anything.
> to what extent a copyright license has any legal power if you're not distributing anything. Simple: no license, no copy. It doesn’t matter how many copies you make, you still need a license. The “defence” of “I didn’t agree to the license” is basically admitting knowing and wilful infringement.
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we're on the cusp of defining a new internet law here
All marketing emails are spam, most spam is marketing emails.
My bank tried this during the start of the pandemic. Yeah, that kind of scummy.
"How to get CERB! Also, we're awesome and here are products to help you!"
(cerb == initial canadian relief payments)
Scum.
1. https://github.com/jeronimofagundes/EmailValidator#available... (PHP)
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I just watched a video where someone demo’d GitHub Copilot by writing a comment along the lines of // IsValidEmail takes a string and returns whether it’s a valid email address The AI response was a nightmarish 100+ character regex that made my blood curdle. I think of email validation like encryption: don’t roll your own, and don’t trust an AI to do it either. Edit: Here's the regex: https://gist.github.com/cassidoo…
This really seems like it is plagiarizing the regex from somewhere without citation.
ML is matrix math (generally) - stuff that you can do by hand, computers are faster at it. As fancy as GPT and co-pilot are, it's all copied from somewhere.
Could someone spell out a use case for this? One that comes to mind would be validating that a mailing list doesn't have any outdated email addresses in it, but couldn't that be determined by just checking for a bounce when a message is sent to it? I tried to sign up for SiriusXM the other day, and though I could create an account with my .pro email address, I couldn't actually sign up for service with that same addr…
Most real humans have at least one address involved in a data breach, but most don't have access to hundreds of emails in a data breach. That means most people can only make use of the "one free ice cream per customer" deal once.
Pretty neat!