Spam Is Bad | Ramblings of an e-trader

Monday 15 January 2007

Spam Is Bad

I don't know about you, but I feel pissed when people e-mail me to market their product UNLESS I have bought something from this seller before. This will not be considered as spam then, but rather an update.

I regularly get such an email from a particular seller whom I was in e-mail contact with previously, although we never traded before.

What is worse is that this particular seller e-mails everybody in her contact list regularly, without the sense of hiding our e-mail addresses in the Blind Carbon Copy field.

Because of this, other fellow sellers who received such an e-mail from her, will utilize that list of recipients and spam us with his/her products. Isn't that unethical? I mean, if I have bought from you before and would like to be updated, then by all means, update me via e-mail, but not when I don't know you and have no wish to buy anything from you at all.

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