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

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From: "Siteria" <mail-in@siteria.net>

Hi Penny and all other people reading the list that don't know if they
should put in their two cents....

As a new publisher myself, I cannot think of anything better than readers
giving comments. The comments you give as a reader, are much more important
than what we think as publishers. I am really new to this game, and don't
really know much about running an e-zine, and any comments potential readers
could give me would most definitely help.

Ben

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-----Original Message-----
From: Penny Widell <pennydw@wcenet.com>
To: epub@onelist.com <epub@onelist.com>
Date: 04 December 1999 19:03
Subject: Re: [epub] Are Publishers destroying Their Own Trustworthiness?


>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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