Re: Advertising (Hopefully List Appropriate)

Strictly, I think that spam is *mass* 'unsolicited commercial email',
deriving as it does from the Monty Python sketch in whch the word spam was
repeated almost forever. I am not sure that 100 e-mails counts as mass -
someone has been sending out millions with an email addres of mine as the
(spoofed) return address - now that *is* spam

However, I would not advocate using a generic e-mail - it might be better to
make the e-mail specific to the site e.g. 'we could improve the loading time
of your images'.

Where it could look unethical to me is where another web designer has worked
on the site, and perhaps matched it to the clients specification, and you
criticise it and by implication the designer, without knowing all the facts.
Seems to me that suggesting that you could improve a feature of the
particular site might be ok, but criticism as such probably isn't.

Its a fine line, and partly a matter of opinion.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaas De Waele" <klaas(at)gracegraphics.be>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:04 AM
Subject: RE: Advertising (Hopefully List Appropriate)


> Maybe it's not unsollicited... maybe he couldn't find someone to make a
> decent website, so he made a really ugly one just to attract people that
> make websites to make a proposal.
>
> :)
>
> - Kayjey -
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Carter, Don [mailto:Don.Carter(at)plc.cwplc.com]
> Verzonden: dinsdag 7 augustus 2001 11:25
> Aan: Klaas De Waele; 'hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org'
> Onderwerp: RE: Advertising (Hopefully List Appropriate)
>
>
> I disagree with Klaas (and others).  The standard definition of Spam that
I
> recall is 'unsolicited commercial email'.  Consequently what he proposes
IS
> Spam.
>
> Don Carter
>

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