From: James (james@towardex.com)
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 18:32:37 GMT-3
Richard,
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:13:22PM +0100, Richard Dumoulin wrote:
> Here everyone advertises so why not John ? When someone posts a question
> related to his product and the vendor answers he is indirectly advertising
> too. I have not seen you complain,
There is a difference between "opt-in" and "unsolicited" advertisement.
A good sales person will follow a good net etique when it comes to selling
products & services via a mailing list such as:
o Not sending unsolicited commercial oriented advertisements to broadcast
list.
o Unicasting "opt-in" requested indirect advertisements/replies to the
requestor via off-list method in private; unless of course many number of
people have requested it, in which a broadcast to public mailing list may
help, dependent on list's AUP policies.
o Understand that people in general do not appreciate cold calls whether the
intent is to help or sell especially when it is unsolicited sales pitch.
In such case, unicast off-list email is a better judgement.
And no, I am not saying John is a bad sales person, nor am I publicly denouncing
his name on purpose. This is all common sense to net sales. People from time to
time make mistakes, and from time to time are not aware of best common practices
out there to conduct a task (including myself definately, don't get me wrong).
It is not a problem in general so long as they realize the inconvenience and
improve upon the realization.
-J
>
> --Richard
>
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