. . . the number of catalog and website postings on Exlibris is just the
lazy man's way of spamming.
. . . the writer going on to state that booksellers might *preferably*
gather the list members' individual names from the subscribers' list and
post to them directly.
Actually, I've always been given to understand that the latter is
*extremely* bad manners. A huge invasion of the list members' privacy and
e-space. One of the few absolute net no-no's! The sort of thing that if
you do it, and get caught, you are on most lists cast into the outer
darkness forever and EVERYBODY agrees "good riddance."
But things change so fast in the net world. Am I just, like, behind the
times? Would list members really prefer this, to picking up commercial
postings sent to a bulletin board?
Advise, please (and thank you)!
Cynthy B'ton
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