spam, spam, lovely spam

[julesjones]

Look, I know I go on about LibraryThing quite a lot. But I do so in actual conversations -- I don't send "Join me on LibraryThing" auto-emails to random acquaintances. I don't even do that to friends.

I can only conclude from the sudden arrival today of several auto-emails for a recent clone that some of the romance review sites have decided that it would be a really good thing to invite lots of authors to join them on said clone. :-/ I'm not sure whether this is because the rival actively encourages people to spam their entire address book with invites -- and since I'm not convinced that they aren't, I'm deliberately not giving them the benefit of being named, never mind a link.

[rummage]

Yes, they do encourage you to invite your entire address book.

[sigh] Welcome to Web 2.0...

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

LibraryThing is wonderfully non-evil, bless 'em.

[julesjones]

Yup. I'm not sure if they've even got a way to send a "try this!" auto-email...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Also I receive a lot of "spam" email from a person that has joined that site. I delete them and I didn't click on the link. Only for the type of invite, I'm not interested in join that site. I like LibraryThing. It's easy and funny. elisa

[julesjones]

The fact that they actively encourage people to spam their entire address book is a good reason not to join, in my view.

There's a little link that allows you to opt-out from further emails. It goes against my principles to use it, but I'd have to report people I know for spamming to do the usual "Spammer! Kill!" routine, and I can't quite bring myself to do that to people who are simply being thoughtless in the belief that they're being helpful.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

In the last days I received the same mail from some "unsuspectable" names... I hop in the site to see what is and my impression was very negative: it's too commercial and doesn't allow me to classify my italian book cause doesn't have the manual entry. Not for me...

BTW I have received today your card. It's beautiful!!! And you sent me also those of Matthew Haldeman-Time and Stephanie Vaughan, two books I have read! I'm very happy, thank you so much! elisa

[julesjones]

I was very unimpressed with it even without the business of encouraging people to spam all their friends with invites.

Glad to hear the package got there safely. :-)I'd been given some postcards by other authors, so I'm including those in my prize envelopes.