Have you ever received an email from a friend or family member and really dont care too much for the contents of the email? Are you on a mailing list that someone that you know put you on without your permission? How do you tell a person, especially a family member or friend not to send you anymore weekly jokes or stuff that you dont really flooding your inbox?
Nowadays, I think we all need to be educated on email and internet ettiquette. Have you seen what teenagers are posting on their blogs lately? But that's another story. I want to talk mainly about emails that you dont want to receive.
There really isnt a way to tell the person that I dont want to receive your emails without offend them. So most people just ignore the emails or set up a filter. I found a "nice" letter that might help a little.
So let's turn things around. What if you want to send out email to a bunch of people that you think might be interested in what you have to send?
Bad - You send emails out to them, without any capability to unsubscribe or subscribe.
Good - You make sure that people can unsubscribe to the mailing list anonymously.
Better - You tell them that you want to send out stuff to you, and if they want to receive it, they'll have to subscribe to the mailing list.
So in otherwords, use a list server to manage your mailing lists. There are plenty of free ones out there. Please repect others privacy.
2 comments:
I found your site through browsing through various church people, clicking from one site to another. This did give me a wake-up call because I have been sending out e-mails bi-monthly to my family about my college adventures. Once in a while somebody will reply but other than that, I wonder if they really enjoy receiving my e-mails. You've certainly given me something to think about.
BTW, nice site of your son.
I dont want to discourage you to send emails to your family. I actually havent found a good website that creates mailing list, so I dont really blame people for sending out these emails. Im probably going create another blog post on email ettiquite, so check back soon.
Thanks.
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