*** ADMIN: A request to iSeries vendors regarding email marketing -- MIDRANGE-L

This message is directed at all iSeries vendors who do email marketing.

I have recently been the recipient of various pieces of Unsolicited Commercial Email from some iSeries vendors. Unfortunately, said vendors couldn't (or wouldn't) say where my email address came from.

Now I really don't remember having interaction with some of these vendors ... especially using THIS email address.

I would like to request that when vendors collect email addresses they retain the SOURCE of the email address ... because when I get email from a vendor that I don't have any reason to communicate with, and I ask where they got my email address from ... they either a) Don't respond at all, or b) Don't know where they got my address.

More often than not, I really suspect they got my email address by farming the lists or my websites ... and, as most of you know, I have zero tolerance for that behavior.

In some cases I absolutely know that my websites have been harvested for a fact, because the email is sent to one of my convenience addresses (addresses that are aliases for my real address and I *NEVER* send out with them).

So vendors ... keep track of where you are getting email address ... so when someone responds to your email marketing and asks "Where did you get my email address", you can say "You gave us your business card at the Spring 2004 COMMON conference" (or something to that effect).

david

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