On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Annie wrote:
> Now an industry guy has challenged me to build an
> announcement list with tens of thousands of subscribers. I've
> never seen lists that big for an actor, much less one who
> hasn't acted for years (last movie was in the eighties...). A
> new movie will come, but it's still very early.
Simply ask this industry guy to provide you with the email
addresses of tens of thousands of people who have ASKED to
recieve publicity releases about this actor. Given the list of
willing subscribers, the logistics of finding a server, wrting
the copy and such are relatively simple. Sending announcements
to unsuspecting victims would do far more damage than good.
Blind emailings are called spam and have many very negative
consequences.
I have no idea where this fellow got the impression that tens of
thousands of people would want to sign up for an announcement
list about a inactive performer. I doubt you could get more than
a few thousand people intersted in subscribing to an announcement
list about Mel Gibson or Tom Hanks, much less for an actor who is
not currently a hot ticket.
- murr -
