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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Do YOU know what Spam is?? (J.F. (Jim) Straw)
Thursday, 23 June 2005, at 10:57 a.m.
Excellent essay trimmed....
> Only had spam complaints once
> (over a year ago) ... that was when I rented an email list.
To be expected. The addresses on that list hadn't given YOU their permission to me emailed.
> Why? -- Because in direct mail we can get a demographic profile of the
> people on a mailing list. Email lists; no matter how they are labeled, are
> NOT demographically profiled. Almost every email list; no matter what it
> is labeled, is generic ... it is just email addresses.
I've seen many email lists advertised for sale, called "targeted" lists. Problem is, the operations that compile those lists just use search terms to find and harvest addresses from newsgroups who discuss those search terms. I found myself on a list of Realtors once because on an anti-spam newsgroup I posted about busting a real estate spammer. I'm also an auto dealer because I posted about busting a extended auto warranty spammer. The targeted lists are nothing but spam lists.
> You NEVER have to worry about being labeled a spammer if the people on
> your email list "want" what you send them. If they recognize you
> ... know what you are about ... and respect your integrity.
Bingo. And if they gave their permission directly to you to email them.
> Spam, like Junk Mail, is in the eye of the beholder.
We actually have a saying: spam isn't about content, it's about CONSENT.
> As a matter of fact, I would be willing to bet that even Roadie receives
> emails that are "acceptable" to him/her.
I receive many emails that are acceptable. Every one I sign up for is acceptable. Ohhhhhh, you might mean UNSOLICITED BULK/COMMERCIAL emails? Not a one. Zero. Nada. No spam is acceptable. It doesn't matter what product or offer is contained in the spam, because as I said, spam is about CONSENT, not content.
And thousands of people have taken the Boulder Pledge to never buy anything that we first hear about in a spam.
http://www.yacktman.org/don/pledge.html
"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community."
Devised by Roger Ebert at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado, this pledge is the simplest method each of us can employ to begin to turn the tide of junk e-mail. He announced this pledge in his column in Yahoo! Internet Life's December 1996 issue.
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