Malia Zimmerman and her fellow travelers Cliff Slater and Charley’s Taxi president Dale Evans are busy promoting the construction of more roads and elevated HOV lanes on their remarkably ugly web sites, as well as the abysmally designed honolulutraffic.com. The Hawaii Reporter has been emailing single image messages for an anti-rail group and a sister web site, ZeroShibai.com.
‘Let the people decide’ not to receive spam
But there’s no unsubscribe or opt-out link in email messages or on their web sites. In 2008, that’s not just ignorant - it may be illegal. So much for respecting the privacy of Internet users. Malia seems more concerned about her First Amendment protection from civil lawsuits than respecting user privacy.
Another petition site, Let Honolulu Vote, has similar problems with design and privacy.
Perhaps StopRailNow could spend some of the money they are spending on full-page advertisements in the Honolulu Advertiser, Star-Bulletin and MidWeek on an email management service like SafeSubscribe.
I did send an unsubscribe request to info [at] stoprailnow [dot] com on 9 May 2008. It’s a very simple message that folows the standard pattern for unsubscribing:
I haven’t received a message from them since. But I didn’t receive any acknowledgment of my request, either. I remember the days when the Hawaii Reporter’s web server was kept in a bedroom.
Laws, technology and expectations have changed since then.
Related posts and pages on billso.com
- Honolulu mass transit
- 8 June 2008: Why Honolulu needs rail
- 20 April 2008: Honolulu newspapers to City Council: Enough already!
- 17 April 2008: Back on track
- 15 April 2008: Council members discuss mass transit research
- 2 April 2008: Still on track?
- 20 March 2008: Like a fifth wheel
- 6 February 2008: Hawaii has highest car ownership costs in the USA
- 19 June 2007: City council, planners still arguing over mass transit routes, modes
