At 11:12 PM -0400 5/5/2000, Bernie Cosell wrote:
>You, I guess, have to administer lists for which membership is required,
>either because they're paying you to let them on your list or there's
>some political reason that they can't be excluded or something like that.
Even simpler: I run lists for people where we need them more than
they need us. Maybe you can say "do it my way or get lost", but I
can't.
>OTOH, I'm hard pressed to think of a single mailing list among all that
>I've been involved with over the years for which a suitable answer to
>your rhetorical question wouldn't be "try once, then to hell with them".
Marketing lists. Stop thinking that all mailing lists are discussion lists.
>Why do you act like admitting single subscribers to a list is some sort
>of entitlement you have to bend over backwards to honor? Is there
>something special about the lists you administer?
Yes. They help us sell computers to our customers and keep our
customers informed on what's going on with my company. There's a huge
difference between "if you don't do it my way, you can't talk about
Quake" and "If you don't like it my way, go buy a Compaq".
--
Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
and say 'Man, what are you doing here?'"
