Explicit consent

I’m working on a blog post about correlation and causation and how cleaning a list doesn’t make it opt-in and permission isn’t actually as outdated as many think and is still important when it comes to delivery. Today is a hard-to-word day, so I headed over to twitter. Only to find someone in my personal network re-tweeted this:

I don’t think I can sum it up much better than that.

Explicit consent to receive mail Is Still Important in order to reach the inbox. Anything else is just sending spam.

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