Hi,
This has been considered illegal by the Landgericht Berlin:
Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list Mailman-Users
We have received a request from [IP address] for subscription of your email address, "michael.kallas@web.de", to the mailman-users@python.org mailing list. [...] This court decided (search Google for "16 O 515/02") that it is considered to be "unwanted advertisement" (UCE, SPAM) if a businessman gets a mail in which he is asked whether he wants to be subscribed to a newsletter. It would be the task of the newsletter administrator to prove that the other person really _wanted_ to subscribe. Similar rights could be used for private persons, so this affects indeed all mailing lists / newsletters.
Should this judgement be shared by other german courts, newsletter admins using mailman or any similar software would have to fear a wave of dissuasions.
Best regards Michael Kallas
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