Re: [epub] Re: ezine announcements

[Brian Alt <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:31 PM 1/13/2001 -0500, Mydenise@aol.com wrote:
>Just on Friday 2 of the announcement lists broadcasted my ezine to their
>mailing list even though I did not submit anything to them.  I assume they
>picked up my ezine descirption from one of the directories.

Many of the directories have their own announcement lists as part of
the service they provide. These include http://ezine-universe.com/ ,
http://paml.alastra.com/ , and others.

>My question is one of the lists (in my mind) totally misrepresented my ezine
>since they reworded my description (without letting me know of such changes).

Directory and announcement list editors can be quite troublesome at times.
I've had enough problems with the editors at Yahoo! to last me a lifetime.
The best course of action is just to request a change in your description.
With announcement lists, you could request that they post an additional
message to the list with the right information and to correct the previous
post in the list's archive.

>I would love your thoughts on whether I should send an email to the
>announcement list and let them know they have misrepresented it??  Is this a
>customary practice for announcement lists to make major rewording changes
>where it changes the intention of the ezine?

Definitely let them know. Editing that misrepresents your ezine should be
totally unacceptable, but unfortunately it happens quite often.

>Last question, of all the announcement lists and directories which ones have
>had the highest payoff for you in terms of subscribers??

http://New-List.com/ and http://listserv.classroom.com/archives/new-list.html
(formerly the Internet Scout Project NEW-LIST) are the two largest.

Hope this helps,

Brian Alt
http://EmailPossibilities.com/
Comprehensive Email Publishing Solutions




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