At 8:56 PM -0800 2/26/99, Michelle Dick wrote:
> However, consider this: you can make money through web advertising by
> having a website people want to visit. Suppose 100,000 people decide
> to start up a a mailing list archive and send out email to all the
> list-owner addresses they can find asking if it is OK to archive their
> lists. So, now, list-owners are sent hundreds of requests for
> archiving a day. From commericial entities not trying to sell the list
> owners anything, but merely asking if they can archive their data so
> they can make a valuable website that people want to visit so they can
> sell advertising and make money.
That's annoying -- but not nearly as annoying as if they go ahead and
archive the stuff, and then tell you what they've done for you and
how you should be happy.
if someone wants to offer me a service, I can simply ignore it. But
at least they're asking. I can live with that. But most of these
groups don't ask. They do, and force you to respond to undo that.
> p.p.s. I already get 2-3 emails a day from people asking "I'll link
> to you if you link to me", which I delete as soon as identify that's
> what they are. Annoying.
Could be worse. Could be e-mails on how they've already done you this
great favor....
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