At 4:08 PM +1100 3/14/02, Konrad Marshall wrote:

>Are there any practitioners who recommend an appropriate frequency and
>length for consented and unsolicited emails?

While I don't think any of them recommend a specific frequency, the 
"best practices" documents linked from 
<http://www.spamcon.org/directories/best-practices.shtml> may offer 
good guidance.

For consented emails, it's actually wise to send fairly frequent 
emails. If you only send email once a year, for example, people will 
forget that they gave consent. Weekly and monthly emails seem to be 
most common. If you can make it a regular period (as opposed to 
irregular mails), all the better. Have you considered doing these 
mailings as a newsletter?

I'd say the appropriate frequency for unsolicited emails is *zero*. 
You'd open yourself up to enormous liability -- legal, social, and 
business-related -- by sending unsolicited email.

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