Re: [epub] Are Publishers destroying Their Own Trustworthiness?

["Penny Widell" <pennydw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Penny Widell" <pennydw@wcenet.com>

Hi Everyone,

Let it be known that I am not a publisher yet,hope to be one 
soon.

I would never do this as,I feel it violates my privacy.
There are ways to do this and let people decide for themselves. 
All you would have to do is send out an exclusive or endorsement 
for the other editor and let people subscribe if they want to. 
That way you wouldn`t loose your creditability and the other 
editor would get some new subscribers.



> 



> 
> One - sharing a client's e-mail address without that client's 
> permission.
> 
> Two - The new list owner adding people to their list without 
> the permission of the folks on that list.
This would be like when you submit to ad pages or ffa and get 
your name put on their newsletters without permission for them 
to do it. All of my submissions to go a dump mailbox and the 
newsletters that are sent there a deleted too.
> 
> Now the person has to go to the trouble of unsubscribing
> from a newsletter list that he did not ask to be on to start with.
I haven`t had it happen to me yet,but if it does I would unsubscribe 
to both newsletters.
> 
> Sooo....   Whose credibility suffers here?  The publisher who
> shared the list when he said he wouldn't?  To be sure. The 
> publisher who added the person to a list unrequested?  Oh yea,
> I would think so.   Perhaps all publishers?   I submit that folks
> who have this happen to them will will tend to be wary of trusting  
> other publishers. 
I would think the one that gave the address away would big 
time,people wouldn`t be very ready to trust him again with their 
information. I know I wouldn`t.



> But to go on, should we think about changing our privacy 
> statements to read  on the sign up pages - We respect
> your privacy and will not share your address with anyone
> except when we can trade and get more subscribers on 
> our list and at the same time provide you with another 
> newsletter you did not ask for but we believe it has great 
> content and will compliment what we're sending?
No I wouldn`t change it to say that,all we can hope for is 
that,the publishers that are doing this will realize that they 
are hurting themselves and everyone else on the web.

> 
> Wadda ya think?  Will the above disclaimer work?  By golly, 
> this should cause people to flock to subscribe to your 
> information or newsletter - don'tcha think?  Hmmm..  Don't
> think I'd hold my breath to even maintain numbers let alone
> increase them.
If you had a dsclaimer like that I wouldn`t sign up for your 
newsletter. As I don`t think you should be able to tell me or 
sign me up for a newsletter that I may not want. That would be 
like telling me you know better what I need to read than I do!


I probably shouldn`t put my 2cents in as I am not a publisher 
yet and am taking this so I can learn,more of the problems of 
being a publisher. 

But as I am a subscriber I think that it would be okay to get a 
different prospective.

Penny Widell


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