Fair enough, I prefer to have shorter emails with a link if I am interested in checking it out, I go there. I rarely click on any link unless it is from a trusted list such as this and the subject interests me.
Dan On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:44:12 +1100, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan, I get abour 800 emails a day. Probably 2/3 of them have links > in them. I just dont click on links in emails unless there is a > reason. Forgetting the spam, if I went and looked at all those sites, > I would never get any work done. I'm not unique here. Most of us > have more email in a day than we can deal with and still get our work > done. > > I didnt see the statement about what Plum does. After that, there was > a lot of noise about Plum but very little about what its for. I've > seen lots of emails about Plum on this list, but because it wasnt > about anything that concerned me, I never read them. > > I'm not criticising anyone in particular, and I'm not criticising the > Plum team. > > I'm just saying that the people who want a product to be accepted and > used, need to recognise that they will get a lot more acceptance if > they remember that many of their potential customers/users wont know > what its for. And therefore either wont bother or wont even notice > it. > > It's not MY responsibility to learn about everything that gets > written. Its the AUTHORS job (or who ever is looking after marketing > and promotion) to tell me why I should bother with it. It's in their > interest I'd have thought, to make it as easy as possible for their > potential users to see the benefits. > > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:07:41 -0500, Dan O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Another example: I've been hearing about PLUM for ages, but I never > > >saw anyone saying what it DOES. I had to go to the PLUM site before > > >I found a statement saying what it is. And that was against my > > >better judgement. If it's too much trouble for the PLUM team to say > > >what it's for, why should I go to the effort? i have plenty to occupy > > >my time. > > > > Come on Mike, really, you have to be kidding me? Someone creates a > > tool (and an incredible one it is), opens the beta up and it is going > > to be free when released, and you cannot click on a link to see what > > it does? > > > > To me, one of the biggest assets to these lists are the links to > > products and knowledge which help me do my job. > > > > I submit to you it probably took you twice as long to type this email > > than it would to have gone to the site to check out what PLUM does. > > > > Dan > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187754 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
