Um, No, You Can’t Spam Our Subscribers, But Thanks

by Carlo Longino on 20. Nov, 2009 in Uncategorized

We just got an interesting email in to MobHappy Towers:

Russel & Carlo,

[company we thought was reputable, and which you've definitely heard of]‘s partner and developer team is interested in purchasing email lists from MobHappy. Could you please provide me with the following information?

* Number of unique monthly visitors to your site
* Email list community size
* Newsletter list community size
* Audience breakdown, including number of developers
* How developers are segmented (iPhone, etc.); if they not segmented, can they be?
* Geographic breakdown
* Pricing information

I am currently unable to access my [company we thought was reputable, and which you've definitely heard of] email, so if you could please reply to all when you respond, I would appreciate it.

Thank you!

First, It’s Russell, with two Ls, but nice try. Second, this email brings to mind some of my rather ham-fisted attempts to pick up girls in college, because it, like me back then, elicited a certain response: “Do you find this approach to actually be successful?”

So just to make things clear: we don’t sell our email list. And we don’t “rent” it, either.

—–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo

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  • There are always a few nuts that will do what the e-mail says.

    For instance clicking on a link in an e-mail that says "ILOVEYOU". That's all that's needed. Note that many that reacted positively to the "ILOVEYOU" messages were office workers / professionals.

    I guess you also remember the guy that wanted to test how gullible people are and left USB sticks with a virus on, as give-aways. That virus was quickly spread across the company.

    The only real solution to spam is invite-only e-mail.
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