Re: [epub] Second Opinions - Response

["George S. Taylor, Jr." <gtaylor@xxxxxx>]

From: "George S. Taylor, Jr." <gtaylor@en.com>

Keep your junk mail


At 06:24 AM 8/19/99 +0800, you wrote:
>From: Azam Corry <subs@nowsell.com>
>
> >From: "Kay" <kay@smutcollectors.com>
> >
> >This morning I opened the mail to find this from Azam Corey:
> > >>>The "Mega Mailing List Builder" was set up by Chad Wyatt and
> >works on a multi-level referral system.
> >
>
>Hi,
>
>Though I'm sure it wasn't intended that way, I don't come off to well
>in all of this and thought I'd better respond before I get a bad name
>:-)
>
>Kay misunderstood my use of the term "refer". The program doesn't
>involve submitting anyone else's email address at all, ever. There's
>no way on earth I'd even consider something like that! You simply
>promote an affiliate type url and those who want to join do so. Those
>who don't, don't. That's all there is to it, like a two tier
>affiliate program but five tier instead. You could perhaps liken the
>email addresses to commissions going down through 5 levels.
>
>For the record I have never been involved any form of MLM.
>
>I also get those stupid emails "New blah blah Matrix", etc.
>- They get deleted without being opened.
>
>I get most upset though with the senders of emails that boldly
>proclaim "This is not spam... you have communicated with me in the
>past..." When I know full well through the use of coding before the
>@nowsell.com of my address that the sender has "farmed" my address
>from the net. These people really make me think several times about
>trying to report them. I probably would if I had the time.
>
>I never send SPAM. As a result of a question posed by one of my Ezine
>subscribers about 'safe lists' two weeks ago - in my reply to which I
>said that I thought most 'safe lists' would be better termed 'SPAM
>lists' - I subscribed to several of those 'opportunity' kind of lists
>at OneList, Topica, eGroups and Listbot as an experiment.
>
>These are the only places I have sent information about this program
>(apart from an accidental posting to Listbuilder and Mailman. This
>mix up of addresses promptly got me banned, as I discovered when I
>attempted to send the originally intended posting about my list :-(
>
>The reason I got involved with the program was to help me increase
>the number of subscribers to my Ezine. I put a lot of time and effort
>into my publication every week. It's not one of those junky
>'business' ezines that seem to be everywhere, most of which seem to
>carry the same articles and always want you to "get in on" this that
>or the other.
>
>I take great care with my subscribers and view them as my friends. I
>respond to mail from them immediately and take the time to answer
>their questions in detail. I'm finding it quite hard to build up the
>number of subscribers though as my site is new and not appearing in
>the SE's yet. My plan was to send a sample issue to the people who
>joined in the program and ask them if they wanted to subscribe. I
>have enough faith in my publication to believe that it can stand up
>on it's own merit.
>
>So actually Kay, we probably share quite similar opinions on most of
>the issues you raised :-)
>
>After all, why would I choose to write and ask for a second opinion
>at all if not for wanting to be sure that this was OK? I knew that
>this might prove a controversial issue and particularly chose this
>list in preference to the other 'list owner' type lists I get because
>I was seeking a deeper, more educated analysis.
>
>And how did I get involved in this at all? I was tricked by a request
>for an ad swap from a Daniel Truitt, webmaster@nospammarketing.com.
>He wrote to me and I replied saying I would like to, but that with
>him having 1400 subscribers (his figure) there was a huge disparity.
>He wrote again saying he had an idea but wanted to know what I was
>doing to promote my list. Thinking it a genuine request I wrote a
>detailed reply. Next he sent me a standard promo letter for this
>program. I was furious! I went to investigate but purposely avoided
>registering under him because of his cheap methods. He lied to me and
>purposely misled me - is that SPAM?
>
>Sorry - I know that this has turned out quite long but I hope you can
>post it all.
>
>All the best,
>
>Azam
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