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Subject: 
Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.debate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 5 May 2000 17:59:36 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
- ability to mark in your member profile whether you are interested in
unsolicited offers, and if so, what sorts (categories of interest, types of
sales, specific sets you want at a low level of interest but haven't posted to
bst lately because you don't want to be a pest).

I like this idea. I really hope the marketting world starts to realize
the value of targetted advertising. I would happily fill out a fairly
detailed survey if I felt that it's use would be to make sure I received
only mail I am interested in. One thing which always bugs me is the
number of consumer or environmental groups which flood me with unwanted
advertising material (Consumer Reports has almost the highest quantity
of inserts of all the magazines I receive, and I don't bother to buy
mailing labels, I get more than enough mailing labels for free from the
World Wildlife Fund).

follow-ups to: lugnet.off-topic.debate

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) Me too. There's a good treatment of the larger subject (including the above) in Evan I. Schwartz's book _Webonomics_. --Todd (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) I'm of two minds here. I totally agree with Eric, and yet I wasn't personally bothered by the mail from Helge, rather I welcomed it. Perhaps in the far future the following facilities will all be available on Lugnet: (read the Plan, it hints (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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