- Don't use the phrase "Last Chance" in every third e-mail. The words lose all meaning after about the fifth or sixth time you overuse them.
- I queue up posts the night before - if you have something that might be of interest to post, mid-morning is a bad time.
- Unsolicited e-mails that ask for a time for a phone call get deleted with extreme prejudice.
- I don't do guest posts. Ever.
- Note to companies: If I was subscribed to your service years ago, and haven't made use of those services since, there's a reason. Suddenly sending out mass e-mails isn't going to change things; fixing your crappy service might.
- I know Unc covered this, but sending out information on a Friday afternoon is about the worst possible time during the week. Folks are gearing up for the weekend.
So what are your mass e-mail pet peeves?
That is all.
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One more: when offering your services to a blogger, it would be best to ensure you're writing to the author of the blog you mention.
The e-mail I got yesterday, offering to provide "targeted ads to help drive blog traffic" was addressed to me, as author of "mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com" ... I don't think Brigid needs any help.
Wading through masses of email addresses and "fwd...fwd...fwd"'s to get to whatever it is the emailer wanted me to see. I usually delete those.
Of course they're not going to bother reading this either.
The fact that I have to give them my eMail when I do place an Order, and they think that gives them Carte' Blanche to keep going and going and going....
For me it's the ones that went from "Meet Singles" to "Meet Seniors."
Emails that only contain a tag to load an inline image from the net. (They do that for two reasons: to better control how the message is displayed, and to track whether that email address has a live human reading it. Guess how much more spam you get if they figure that out.)
I get at least a dozen messages a week with only a little red 'x' and a copyright statement.
The ones that are even more annoying are the ones like that, but with a line above the 'x' that says, "If you're having difficulty reading this message, click this link to read it in your browser."
No. You're already abusing my bandwidth by sending me spam. I'm not spending more of it to see your drivel, and I'm not giving you the satisfaction of letting you know that a human being even saw it.
"Of course they're not going to bother reading this either."
You'd be surprised at the number of emails I got after my post that started with 'i know you don't want these of Friday, but the boss said . . .'
-SayUncle
Les: that's why I have a few junk email accounts I use when I have to register to use the functions somewhere online... or shop, or whatever.
Keeps the spam to a minimum.
not to be picky or anything but i have a distant memory of a guest post on your blog ....
I only have one piece of advice to offer to spammers.
Die in a fire.
Whenever somebody complains about anything, there are two responses:
In the private sector, somebody is thinking "how can I make a buck off this problem?"
In the public sector, somebody is thinking "how can I make a buck off this problem?"
The former tries to fix the problem, the latter makes it worse.
In a few years, it'll probably be a felony not to acknowledge receipt of spam email from the government.
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