On 05/05/2011 11:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
You refer to me but respond to Joe Zeff's comment rather than
mine, so
I'll rephrase my point: how can you expect people to click on a random
URL without even explaining what it's for? Saying "it's for my new
app"
is simply not good enough.
And I'll take it a step further, Patrick. Why do you expect random
strangers on a mailing list to give their email addresses to an unknown
website that doesn't explain what it's going to do with them? For all I
knew (or, for that matter, know) doing that signs me up for a spammer's
mailing list that's impossible to get off of again. You may trust the
people running that site, and you may even be right to do so, but I know
nothing about them and have learned over the decades why trusting
strangers I can't even see (such as the owners of a website) is
generally not a good idea.