On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:55:52AM -0600, Stephanie da Silva wrote:
> Is egroups encouraging their listowners to spam?
>
> Their FAQ on promoting lists says this:
>
> Promoting Your E-Mail Group
>
> Here are our top tips on how to increase membership in your e-mail group:
> [...]
> Post to Newsgroups. Invite subscriptions, when appropriate, in
> Usenet groups or e-mail lists. Be careful! Invitations can be
> considered spam if not "on topic" or without respect to the policies
> of each group. You can also invite individual posters based on
> their specific message topics.
This seems fairly responsible to me.
I would remove the first sentence ("Post to Newsgroups."), but
aside from that it looks about right.
(I like the way Egroups does things, in general; I wish I had
started something like this years ago.)
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Gerald Oskoboiny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/
