[Chapter-delegates] Email and Fonteva (was Re: Re: Questions to Internet Society Board of Trustees from the UK England Chapter of the Internet Society)

[Hank Nussbacher]

On 02/04/2024 17:34, Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates wrote:
>
> When you send mail _as an organization_, you fall under various 
> spam-control regimes around the world.  All of them, it appears, have 
> two basic classes of things.  One of them are strictly required 
> communications that are a necessary part of being associated with the 
> association in question.  So, for instance, when you sign up for 
> membership in a chapter, there are certain emails that you are 
> _intrinsically_ agreeing to get, and the only way not to get those is 
> to give up being a member.  These mails, even if not wanted, are not 
> "spam" because they are part of the function of being a member at all.
>
> Other mails are the sort of thing that a member might not want to hear 
> about, even if it is generally of interest to chapter membership.  
> This might be, for instance, progress on a major chapter initiative.
>
> Anti-spam legislation treats these two cases very differently, and 
> therefore we have to have a mechanism to do so.  This is the reason 
> for the somewhat complicated set-up of profiles before sending email.  
> As others have already noted on this list, once the profiles are set 
> up, they can be re-used.  But we recognize that this is an 
> unaccustomed part of the workflow.
>
Fascinating.  I did not realize that.


On the other hand, ICANN uses Mailman lists like:

https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ccnso-members

and numerous other lists:

https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/

There are membership only lists, discussion style lists, etc.


RIPE maintains membership mailing lists:

https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/ripe-ncc-mailing-lists/

as well as numerous discussion style open to anyone mailing lists:

https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/ripe-mailing-lists/


Can you indicate what anti-spam legislation they are in violation with 
their methods of maintaining contact with their membership via Mailman?


Regards,

Hank