[epub] Re:Re: We're Back

[Rhonda Holland <rmholla@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:53 PM 2/21/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Maria,
>
>If you send solo ads to subscribers, then I think
>you are presuming too much.
>
>The first time I receive a solo ad I unsubscribe to
>the ezine that sent it. I subscribe to ezines to get
>helpful info, not to join the publisher's many affiliate
>programs via annoying solo ads.
>
>Tombo
>http://www.TheDiscountPrinter.com



I don't mind solo ads all that much because most lists are run as a 
business.   My pet peeve are list owners who don't treat their lists as a 
business and begin sending "other" items to the list.

Here is a sample of what I send to the list owner right after I remove myself.

-----
I did not join your mailing list to receive ANYTHING other than business 
related ((or whatever type of list it is)) correspondence. You have 
violated the proper rules of maintaining a mailing list by sending 
unrelated material. SPAM by any other name is still SPAM.
-----

I remove myself from any mailing list which violates its purpose.  If a 
joke list starts mailing political messages, I unsubscribe.  If a political 
mailing list starts sending recipes, I unsubscribe.  A gardening list 
starts sending prayer requests, I unsubscribe.  Not necessarily because the 
message offends me or my beliefs but because the list owner committed 
fraud.  I agreed to receive email for a certain purpose.  If I am getting 
something I did not request, the list owner is telling me that he does not 
respect me or his business (since most lists are businesses at heart).  I 
do not wish to associate with such organizations or companies.

I always try to let the list owner know why I decided to leave. (Just like 
I would complain to any business.) Out of all my letters to list owners, 
the only ones to lash out and tell me I am wrong are the ones who chose to 
send some sort of religious message. All the rest thanked me for letting me 
know what they had done wrong - and the majority of them agreed with me. 
(That they had lost sight of the list's true purpose but would not do so 
again.)

It bothers me when a publisher sees nothing wrong with sending email that 
do not fit the purpose of this list -- the REASON I granted permission to 
email me in the first place.



Regards,
Rhonda M. Holland
Publisher, Money Finder
mailto:moneyfinder-subscribe@topica.com
http://moneyfinder.bizhosting.com


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