NONE: Re: Junk Mail -> Blacklist of Internet Advertisers
Re: Junk Mail -> Blacklist of Internet Advertisers
Russian On-Line Literary Society (teneta_at_komkon.org)
Fri, 5 Jul 1996 10:30:54 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Daniel Pfarrer wrote:
> I can't agree more of how annoying it is to read junk mail. Each time I
> get a piece of junk mail, I'll let the spammers ISP know (politely) that
[...]
> Advertising on the internet is ok; just as long as you don't send out
> unsoliticed e-mail saying "this is a 1 time mailing", or send out a ton
> of ads in the wrong areas of usenet; this makes your company look bad. I
> suggest that one of the safest ways to advestise on the net would be to
> sponsor a popular home page; and/or advertise your home page in a
> newspaper or magazine/etc; (that's just like sponsoring the newspaper);
I tried a similar approach. When some person approached several
people from the mailing list which I lead, and these people complained,
I proposed a month of free advertisement at our sites to the spammers.
I did propose the same thing to those who spammed soc.culture.russian
newsgroup with their ads. We would benefit from that helping the newsgroup
and just people to clean up their mailboxes, and also getting a chance
to test how do more diverse ads than what we have now work at our sites.
Curiously, none agreed to take these absolutely free offers.
They were probably scared that we will try to charge them later.
I have a different question though. When I see some company that tries
to sell something related to our profile and their counter shows something
lie 300 visitors since February 2nd, I have a strong temptation to send
a proposal to advertise their site to their contact address (i.e. where
they write: send your inquires). This is certainly unsolicited e-mail
since these companies imply that they are waiting letters from the
customers. From the other point of view I think that they would be
interested to try one month of the advertisement for free and certainly
get more readers.
What do you think?
Sincerely yours,
Leonid Delitsin
Teneta \Te-'nyo-ta\ [cyr. TEHETA Russ. 1. web 2. net]
Russian On-Line Literary Society Annual Contest
http://www.komkon.org/teneta/
http://sharat.co.il/teneta/
