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robryan on June 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A $1 billion idea...that I know I'm not ready for

Even if restaurants collect an email for booking, automatically opting them into mailouts is probably on the wrong side of spam laws.

aidenn0 on June 19, 2012 [–]

Nope, you have an established business relationship then, so opt-out is okay.

robryan on June 20, 2012 | [–]

Source? I am not so sure. A quick read seems to define separate rules for commercial and transactional content.

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