After my public complaint about Constant Contact, and their response that they "require" opt-in, I decided to take a look in my log files. I discovered over 300 emails from Constant Contact servers since August 2006, not one of which was opt-in.
I admit that I didn't terribly mind some of the emails, such as the ones from my publishers. On the other hand I found others quite annoying, and as such I decided last year to block all email Constant Contact and tell the people I do want to hear from that their email will never be delivered if they use Constant Contact. As an example, just in the past week I've received what appear to be two new subscriptions to mailing lists: the "Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center" as well as "Identity Circle." I can't say that I have ever heard of them, and of course I've never opted in to receive emails from them. It's just spam as far as Internet etiquette is concerned — unsolicited mass email — regardless if it somehow squeezes in under the rules of CAN-SPAM.
Fortunately, my spam filters now delete all email from Constant Contact correctly, that is to say immediately — problem solved.
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