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Programmers are a very different crowd, they will give you throwaway accounts to get past e-mail barriers. They will mark you as spam in Gmail, lowering your re
by duopixel 16y ago
Programmers are a very different crowd, they will give you throwaway accounts to get past e-mail barriers. They will mark you as spam in Gmail, lowering your reputation.
Don't push programmers stuff they don't want, let them reach you easily (RSS, twitter).
- bmelton 16y agoThis isn't something they want? LPTHW is perhaps the best regarded intro to Python book I've heard tale of anywhere, and there's been 300k+ downloads of it in digital format. Also worth considering is that it's probably newer programmers downloading it at this point. I know when it was first released EVERYbody downloaded a copy, to see what was what, but now that's worn off, I suspect the demographic is more 'those who need it', and are less experienced.
- rch 16y agoAgreed. I was one of those downloads, but I wouldn't have handed over an email address for the privilege. One thing though... if I do opt-in for something, I wouldn't mark it as spam in a web mail client. That is strictly non-programmer behavior.
- dpritchett 16y agoI'll mark your newsletter as spam in gmail if you don't provide an easy way for me to unsubscribe - preferably without having to remember my account info.
- rch 16y agoGood point. I still might start with a friendly email though.