FLAME ABOUT COMMERCIALS IN EMAIL [Books Account: Technical books]

[Gregory G. Woodbury]

	Several people have complained about one vendor sending a small
inquiry via email to see if they are interested in being on the vendors
email mailing list.

	There was quite a discussion weveral weeks back in one of the
news.* groups about whether a vendor should contact news posters via
email.  The upshot of that discussion was that it would be appropriate
for the vendor to send an inquiry via email when they felt that a
particular user might be interested.

	The whole round of discussion does not need repeating here,
although most of the obnoxious points have been made already.

	There is a simple answer.

	If YOU do not want to be on that vendors mailing list, simply
answer the questions in the negative and (if you want) tell the vendor
VIA EMAIL to leave you alone.

	Personally, I appreciated them asking me if I wanted to be on
the list since I do use their products a lot.
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Gregory G. Woodbury @ The Wolves Den UNIX, Durham NC
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