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A. Legitimate opt-in e-mail marketing
and perhaps
B. Spam
Certainly there must be a lot of webmasters that use legitimate html e-mail marketing to drive traffic to their sites -- why isn't there a distinct forum for this discussion?
And regarding e-mail spam -- this is a hot topic that many of us deal with. Perhaps it doesn't need to be pulled out separately from the e-mail marketing thread, but I'd love to have a place here to read people's opinions about it -- and where the lines should be drawn for pending legislation to deal with it.
Again, sorry for posting in the google forum -- it just happens to be a well-read forum.
Email marketing is indeed a hot topic - mostly because many people are extremely annoyed by that.
We have some discussions on that topic, which were mostly in the ecommerce forum.
From the demand we have seen so far I would however question that topic warrants a forum of it's own.
E-mail marketing is not a webmaster topic at all, although people have opinions on it. If a webmaster builds an opt-in form, it is in response to a marketing person's request. I agree that the ecommerce sub-forum has the bandwidth to cover it.
Bob
