What happens is that there are these promo companies that for a fee will handle all the hard work of sending out ads to the many and various romance mailing lists. Since it's a low pay thing, they just cross-post it to a whole bunch of lists without necessarily reading any of the day to day conversation on those lists. In theory they make sure they don't send material where it's not wanted, but in practice some of them are a bit hasty in pressing the send button before trimming the To line.
There was much mea culpa this morning about posting it to homopromo (it was off-topic in a big way, and would have been unwanted even if it had been a *polite* "no m/m"), and I'm sure it was just carelessness on "To:" trimming, because that promo company has previously sent ads for m/f books to the list even though they are explicitly unwanted. The promo person is obviously scared that they're going to get the sack for sending this one to a group that would take offence, but really, the offence is in the wording and it would have been offensive wherever it was posted.
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Date: 2007-02-08 05:32 pm (UTC)There was much mea culpa this morning about posting it to homopromo (it was off-topic in a big way, and would have been unwanted even if it had been a *polite* "no m/m"), and I'm sure it was just carelessness on "To:" trimming, because that promo company has previously sent ads for m/f books to the list even though they are explicitly unwanted. The promo person is obviously scared that they're going to get the sack for sending this one to a group that would take offence, but really, the offence is in the wording and it would have been offensive wherever it was posted.