Dada Mail and SPAM
This document is a brief overview of Dada Mail when used for spamming purposes and the stance of the author on the subject.
For more information please see the SPAM FAQ.
DO NOT use Dada Mail for SPAM.
Dada Mail was created in the first place to be used humbly, for people to be able to announce to other people who asked to be announced. Dada Mail is also made to do this easily, breaking down the technical barrier needed to set up such a sophisticated piece of software. Dada Mail can be used to tell people about various personal projects, like on a personal homepage, used in a small business to help ignite interest in their product, facilitate the exchange of ideas through an announce-only setting and generally make communication easy. The author acknowledges that all the things that makes Dada Mail easy to use for the above reasons also makes it easy to be used for "SPAM" or unsolicited e-mail, but the author has also purposely made Dada Mail not fine tuned to the sending out of SPAM (or more realistically, didn't go out of his way to make it really amazing for SPAM)
Dada Mail does not and will never be made for the sole purpose of SPAM. DO NOT ask the developer to do this for you. Dada Mail does not mask the sender of the e-mail, does not mask what site the mail comes from, does not stop any person on the list from unsubscribing , does not change the To or From headers (these are different from the To: and From: headers, notice the colon) and does not in any way change the "Envelope" the e-mail is sent in. All this means that Dada Mail is not very well suited in the sending of SPAM.
The developer did go well out of his way to make it easy to subscribe and unsubscribe the lists at any time the subscriber wants, and to be able for the administrator of the list to take any e-mail address off that he wants due to bounced e-mails.
Please do not use Dada Mail for SPAM, NO support will be given, I WILL NOT help you in anyway seed plans to make Dada Mail more spam friendly (unfriendly?) Any support given to people for this purpose will be dropped immediately upon finding the person's true intention. This has happened before. Any abuse found when using the Dada Mail program can be sent to:
abuse@skazat.com
I will not go after everyone or probably anyone about using Dada Mail for SPAM. I am not your mother, nor am I the traffic cop of the world. Use common sense. If you think its SPAM, its probably SPAM.
Here's a list of some legitimate uses of Dada Mail, when used by the developer
and other users. There are many many different roles Dada Mail can play:
Personal Sites
Skazat
http://skazat.com uses Dada Mail to announce updates on the personal site of Justin Simoni (the developer) and also to announce freelance work of Justin Simoni
Nonprofit Organizations
Skatepark.org
http://skatepark.org
uses Dada
Mail to announce updates to skatepark.org, from the site: "This site
serves as a resource for everyone involved in the process of getting a public
skatepark built, and generally promoting skateboarding."
SPAUSA
http://spausa.org
uses Dada
Mail to send out its newsletter.
Services
Dada Mail
https://dadamailproject.com
uses Dada
Mail to announce new versions of Dada Mail.
Summersault Software
http://www.summersault.com/software/cascade/
uses Dada Mail
to announce new versions of its "Cascade" software.
ETC.
Quote Cache
http://quotes.prolix.nu
The quote Cache uses Dada
Mail to send out the last ten literary quotes that users have submitted
to the site.
Please understand that the idea of Dada Mail (its philosophy i guess you can call it) is to comunicate... to facilitate communication and make it so easy that anyone with a website and allowed to run cgi scripts can do it, without banner ads, without having to put the lists on a different server, to do it safely and with no worry that people will get "stuck" on your list, unable to unsubscribe, and unable to communicate with the owner of the list.
Dada Mail was originally designed for a personal site, and is still in use there, I'm very happy with its performance, its features and the positive feedback I get from people who have experienced the same. I regret to have had to write the above and am truly sorry if anyone gets a SPAM e-mail using Dada Mail and the people who have to use SPAM to communicate their "ideas" I believe that a person's e-mail address and their e-mail account is the property of the person, as much as their car, house, or even their physical self is.I do believe it is no ones right to abuse any of these things, and I intend to never do so.
Justin Simoni; August 29th, 2000 (tweaked 11/30/03)
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's
only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil
- William Gibson