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> You're just communicating your offering directly to people that may be interested. I have a brimming spam folder full of people who are “just communicating t

> You're just communicating your offering directly to people that may be interested. I have a brimming spam folder full of people who are “just communicating their offering directly to people who may be interested.” Sometimes these people are apparently elderly or alzheimers sufferers who don't have the cognitive ability to distinguish spam from official sources, and are easily exploitable. I imagine the worthless specimens sending these emails have intricately woven strands of faecal material in their cell nuclei instead of DNA.

handfuloflight 2y ago
> Sometimes these people are apparently elderly or alzheimers sufferers who don't have the cognitive ability to distinguish spam from official sources, and are easily exploitable. Is everyone who sends cold email seeking to exploit this group? Is everyone who sends cold email seeking to exploit?
- MrVandemar 2y ago
  > Is everyone who sends cold email seeking to exploit this group? Is everyone who sends cold email seeking to exploit? Clearly not. That is why the sentence begins with "Sometimes".
gwd 2y ago
> I have a brimming spam folder full of people who are “just communicating their offering directly to people who may be interested.” Right, but the people who sent those mails -- what reason do they have to think that you're interested in <checks spam folder> orthapedic multizone mattresses, Microsoft teams room equipment, or a talk about Amber Engebreston's transition from Supply Chain Manager at Chipotle to her current role? (OK, that last one was a weird.) If, on the other hand, you've posted a job opening for someone to do direct marketing, there's a good chance your company sends cold emails; in which case, maybe you'd like to outsource some of that work to make it more effective. The thing I dislike about spam is the offloading of filtering from them to me. But if someone has actually put in effort to figure out what I personally might actually want, I'm a lot more willing to take a look.

handfuloflight 2y ago

> Sometimes these people are apparently elderly or alzheimers sufferers who don't have the cognitive ability to distinguish spam from official sources, and are easily exploitable. Is everyone who sends cold email seeking to exploit this group? Is everyone who sends cold email seeking to exploit?

MrVandemar 2y ago
> Is everyone who sends cold email seeking to exploit this group? Is everyone who sends cold email seeking to exploit? Clearly not. That is why the sentence begins with "Sometimes".

gwd 2y ago

> I have a brimming spam folder full of people who are “just communicating their offering directly to people who may be interested.” Right, but the people who sent those mails -- what reason do they have to think that you're interested in <checks spam folder> orthapedic multizone mattresses, Microsoft teams room equipment, or a talk about Amber Engebreston's transition from Supply Chain Manager at Chipotle to her current role? (OK, that last one was a weird.) If, on the other hand, you've posted a job opening for someone to do direct marketing, there's a good chance your company sends cold emails; in which case, maybe you'd like to outsource some of that work to make it more effective. The thing I dislike about spam is the offloading of filtering from them to me. But if someone has actually put in effort to figure out what I personally might actually want, I'm a lot more willing to take a look.