The Power of E-Mail Marketing

Spam or not - it works.

[txbakers]

Here is a link to the NYTimes article about the sale of the Iraqi most wanted playing cards.

You will need to create an account with NYTimes.com (use a ficticious email address if YOU don't want further spam) if you don't already have one.

[nytimes.com...]

[martinibuster]

They played down that he spammed a couple million people who had "opted in."

Then the NYTimes played up his affiliate-marketers when his affiliates got out of control and started releasing a massive flood of indiscriminate spam.

Kind of funny.

[universalis]

You will need to create an account with NYTimes.com (use a ficticious email address if YOU don't want further spam) if you don't already have one.

I have had an NY Times account for years, and I have never been spammed by them. Having said that, don't we all use a throwaway hotmail address for this kind of stuff already?

[txbakers]

Someone told me that the Times, while not a direct spammer, is one of the worst offenders in selling their email lists.

I didn't know that originally, but now I use a throwaway address for every bleeping "you must subscribe first" form on the web.

[digitalghost]

I do the email thing a bit differently. When I need to subscribe, I create an email account for the site I need to subscribe to. So for the NY Times I have [e-mail]

The mailbox has been empty for at least the last 6 months.

And of course spam works. If it didn't we wouldn't receive as much of it.