You know, if you’re going to send email to a person who runs a mailing list, don’t assume that he only runs one mailing list. Generally the skills for running one list are transferrable to other mailing lists, so the person in question might run more than one. Take me, for instance. I run probably 2 dozen or so lists. Which is why I get so annoyed when I get email like this:
To whom this may concern:
I am from [Clueless Wankertech] Inc. and we have an event coming up that we feel
the members of your mailing list will benefit from. Below is a post
which we are wondering if you could post to your mailing list or allow
us to do this. Thank you for your time and consideration.The post is as follows:
[etc]
Argh, I hear you. I regularly get email like “I’m having trouble joining the group. Can you help?” and “I can’t get email through to the list. Why?”
The same people rarely send anything useful, like, say, a bounce message or error message.
Aren’t they asking you to *spam* your list on their behalf? I don’t call that clueless, I call it scumbag.