On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 21:17:36 -0500, "Fox C1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I wonder rhetorically how much postal mail is sent to dead people? My wife's father gets, on average, one "pre-approved" credit card offer per week, often with glowing remarks about his excellent credit rating. The rest of the volume (about ten per week) is even less interesting. He died in 1978. >Even if we TRIED to run E-mail advertising ethically... I hate to say it >would never work, and may never even come close. I added some more examples to the "Nadine" site Friday afternoon, including a harangue on "targeted" "harvesting" (and on why using the word "harvest" to refer to collecting email addresses is A Bad Thing). mdr -- The hits just keep on coming for poor "Nadine". See the sad tale of email lists gone horribly wrong at <http://www.honet.com/Nadine/> F - IW GEVNP _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
