Yeeeaaahhh! Someone that understands what I mean. I want to market what I
have and I want to see others that market their stuff. Period. No
forcing, no opting out, just plain wanting in and for a reason.
Kimi Adams
At 6/27/02, you wrote:
>Am 27. Jun, 2002 schwätzte Dr.G so:
>
> > I'm afraid I didn't sign up to this list to have my email put into a DB
> with
> > a list of skills/references on me so that someone can go in there and just
> > send me email whenever they have a problem. I thought that was what
> PLUG was
>
>I don't think that's what anyone was proposing. I hope it wasn't.
>
>I try to get people to mail the list rather than going to me directly.
>
>Admittedly I sometimes go directly to a few people because I know they're
>working on the project in question or I specifically want their opinion.
>
>What was proposed was to email the people on the list and ask them to sign
>up. That's SPAM and I, personally, am very much against that. Announcing it
>as a new project on the appropriate lists is fine. That will get better
>reception, so that's the way to go anyway.
>
>The db thing should be totally an opt-in thing, e.g. you initiate your entry
>and you maintain it. I think that's what's been proposed.
>
> > If anything, this idea would HAVE to be an Opt-In, not Opt-Out. Opt-Out is
> > just as annoyng as MSN/hotmail signing you up for thier spam, not telling
> > you, and then saying "Oh, well, its OPT-Out..."
>
>Opt-out should be illegal. At the international level. Period. Actually, at
>the intergalactic level!
>
>ciao,
>
>der.hans
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