At 9:16 PM -0400 5/3/01, Jessica Callender is rumored to have typed:
> Hi All--
> All this discussion about the 'largest' mailing lists and being ethical and
> all --
Yeah, I can see we wouldn't want to let ethics sneak into a marketing
discussion, now would we?
> I need to find rental or free mailing lists for e-marketing
(*sigh*)
Actually, this brings up an interesting question, though. I used to direct
people who confused real-world "mailing lists" with Internet "mailing lists"
to:
http://www.liszt.com/intro.html
...but of course now that redirects to <comments expunged> Topica. Does
anyone have a link to a page or pages that accurately define Internet mailing
lists by contrasting it to the spam lists most "outsiders" think of when they
see those two words together?
(Yeah, I guess I'm kinda lazy, but in my defense I'm tired of trying to
explain the difference to people just looking for a cheap way to sell their
junk by "renting" lists of Internet email addresses, and would just rather
point them to something they can read at their leasure.)
Charlie Summers
