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Safelist Mishap
Very interesting thing happened last night (Sunday). I'm on a mailing list for an Internet marketer who will remain nameless. This is unrelated to other marketing projects with which I'm currently involved. He sent out a safelist announcement to his members last night inviting them to send out postings to be emailed to his group, ie "Safelist". I participated with a posting, as well as in the receipt of several other member's postings. Such is the case with safelists, which you know if you've ever worked with one.
I think that the confusion began when the administrator of the list failed to notify the list that the mailing would begin and with what frequency. So, the list became an angry uprising with threats of calling the SPAM police. Interestingly enough, many of the threats were group-mailed to the safelist just as the original emails had been. What's really strange though was that the angry people who had been emailed also sent "removes" out to the whole list, as if each member could remove them from the administrator's safelist. I even had to educate one man who was rather insistent with me to provide an explanation! An explanation for the mailing out of someone else's list!!!
So, anyway, another email went out to the group stating that the safelist was a spoofing of his mailing list and was not intentional, nor was it his doing. Personally, I kind of think he loaded the safelist script with the wrong parameters and rather than trying to explain to an angry mob the finer points of scripting, he just said someone else did it. Within an hour of the initial mailing, the list was deleted anyway. It didn't matter though, because the angry emails continued. Some even used profanity which I will not tolerate. Maybe, I should report them to the SPAM police?
What is that old saying? Oh yeah. "Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." I'm not saying that stupid people don't deserve sympathy. In fact, in Texas we have another saying that applies to stupid people and it goes, "Well, bless your little heart." I'm also not condoning the mailing out of SPAM. I hate SPAM just as much as the next person. I'm just saying, get over it already! My pet peeve is with people who whine, which I despise even more than SPAM.
Clearly, the whole thing was an accident any way you look at it. So, I say we give the guy a break and stop sending out threatening emails which reveal our level of maturity, or else suffer the SPAM police.
My rant for the day.
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