e-mail list use at Akamai, followup

Tue Sep 4 22:26:05 UTC 2001

At 05:19 PM 9/4/2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
>1) Akamai won't be using any lists in the future to do e-mail marketing.
>    That's a firm commitment that we're prepared to make.  Anyone doing
>    so will be terminated.
>
>2) Akamai's policy has been and remains that no Akamai salespeople are
>    to e-mail potential customers unless they've been given permission
>    to do so by a human.  Violations have led, and will lead, to termination.

As it should be.  If only every company could be big enough to stand up and 
say "We made a mistake, we learned from that mistake and we'll strive never 
to do it again."

I, for one, applaud this.