Hey Will,
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. 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*.
I realize not everyone is subscribed to every list out there but how about
just 2 (ambient and IDM). One company has some news to promote and a
person has to get 3 huge emails about it.
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 don't mean to criticize someone for being "too efficient" because I feel
feel it's actually really in-effecient (like um, in-famous). 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". 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
Now *that* is effecient!
Lance is a Bot. Pietro is not.
And those are some pretty big shoes to try and fill...
--
Shimone/Justes
http://www.staticbeats.com > Electronic Music > Digital Culture
http://www.boomboombap.com > First Come > First Heard
William Samuels said:
quoted 17 lines Hey Shimone/Justes, there are probably very very very
> Hey Shimone/Justes, there are probably very very very
> few people that are subscribed to all of those lists.
> I'm amazed you have the time to be on so many.
>
> Are you criticizing Pietro for being too effective
> about spreading the word on new releases and music
> news? I imagine most artists and labels love that
> someone is out spreading the news to so many lists.
>
> Perhaps you should find some way to filter your email
> so that you don't get that many duplicates. You could
> organize your email by sender instead of date or
> subject and delete all of his extra messages at once
> or block him if you don't find his emails useful.
>
> I can't really see criticizing someone for being "too
> efficient" at dispersing music info.
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