< Thanks for writing. Like I said, Im sure there are
people out there who appreciate these mass emails but
I for one do not and have little way of preventing
their arrival. >
Well you know the saying you can't please everyone. I
get duplicates of lots of messages since I'm on a few
newsgroup. It doesn't bother me.
< I log in through different software depending where
Im at (home, work, desktop, laptop) and so a simple
kill filter is hardly effective. I must have gotten 20
emails from Pietro today most of which were 2 or 3
copies of the same thing - in addition to the emails I
received from the original list owner. The effect is
that I delete all of them in frustration and read none
of them. Sort by name, click, click, click, *delete*.>
Sounds like an average day for me on any list that I'm
on. I expect to delete 80% of the posts almost
immediately, and pick thru the topics that look
interesting.
< I realize not everyone is subscribed to every list
out there but how about just 2 (ambient and IDM). >
I'm on a few lists and I get plenty of duplicates or
triples of posts. It just goes right in the trash, I
don't usually waste time to complain about it.
<One company has some news to promote and a person has
to get 3 huge emails about it. >
I know the issue isn't the news, it's about the
frequency of messages.
Personally, I'd rather get doubles or triples of a
post with some music news versus a bunch of trivial
useless posts like an idm poll. But that's me. I'm on
the list to learn about new music releases that might
have slipped by my attention. Not to read how everyone
found IDM, or what trying to poll what everyone's
favorite tunes are for their car or whatever.
Or take the 313 list for example, somehow a question
about a track ID can turn into a 30+ post thread about
how so and so played it at some show. For some reason
that list seems to generate really long threads. I
don't see the point in reading that many posts or
contributing to such a long thread.
Maybe it's because there aren't enough new Detroit
releases coming out so people have gotten use to
chatter about anything and everything.
< While I imagine those
labels/artists/promoters/whatever might appreciate
their message being sent I don't believe they would be
as happy to understand their messages are proliferated
as spam. >
I disagree. You know what makes a lot of people
remember "products", it's repetition. For commercials
you often have to see a commercial at least three
times for it to stick in your head. Obviously many of
these idm labels don't have big advertising budgets,
so I'm willing to bet there are very very very few
that would object.
< I don't mean to criticize someone for being "too
efficient" because I feel feel it's actually really
in-effecient (like um, in-famous). >
Yeah I understand your point of view because you are
on A LOT of lists, but I also highly doubt that there
are that many people subscribed to so many lists. And
those that might are probably use to deleting a ton of
emails immediately to cut the number of posts to read.
< There are much better ways to spread the gospel.
I mean shit, how about even setting up some cool
website and saying: "Update for Friday July 18th -
Lotsa news from different sources". >
Sure a website is always a good idea. Here's another
way to get away from the repetition you could always
unsubscribe from all of your newsgroups and have
people submit music news for your website.
I would imagine that being subbed to so many lists
there must a lot of overlap in topics. It sounds
rather tedious. I get more useful information reading
distributor lists every week than reading from any
newsgroup.
< You can plug the content right into the site and
then have a one-line link. I do it on StaticBeats and
it's really not all that hard. Send one link out to
the list and then allow people to come visit. In fact,
here you go:
http://www.staticbeats.com/modules.php?name=Stories_Archive&sa=show_all
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> quoted 4 lines Now *that* is effecient!
> Now *that* is effecient!
> Lance is a Bot. Pietro is not.
> And those are some pretty big shoes to try and
> fill...
Yes Lance was a bot. I don't think anyone has
attempting to fill his shoes.
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