[_] Advice/feedback...
Matt Hamilton
matth at netsight.co.uk
Tue Oct 3 09:43:25 BST 2006
Thayer wrote:
> Two things I'd like to know your personal opinions on (ie, not what most
> people think, but what you would actually feel in this situation):
>
> 1 - Would you be pissed off if you got emailled about a course, for a
> website you'd registered for? If so, why would be helpful.
If it was relevant then yeah I wouldn't mind I don't think. I'm trying
to think personally of times something like this happened and my
reaction... actually the best example I can think of is actually paper
based, and is the Wellhouse Consultants newsletter which has training
courses in but also small snippets of examples of code etc that are
often quite interesting (if you are a coder ;) )
> 2 - How often would you not mind hearing from a website you'd subscribed to,
> so long as you could unsubscribe at any time? (weekly, monthly, anytime
> there's an offer, never..)
Hrmm... again thinking of things in the past... Motley Fool I think used
to send me stuff that I found interesting, but that was when I was
remortgaging so was interested in it, I unsubscribed a while after that.
I guess depends on the type of site...eg Bristol Media's mailings I
like cos they are news about what is going on, not sales stuff etc. Yet
the Business West (chamber of commerce) ones I generally skim read then
delete.
> 3 - Would you be pissed off if you were put on a mailing list automatically
> by joining the site, even if there was a very clear unsubscribe link? I
> mean, I would, but only if it was irrelavant content. I'm aware it's really
> bad form though. Or would it be fine?
I think it might bug me. Conferences do this, ie you register for a
conference and they add you automatically to a mailing list, and that is
fine as it is info on the run up to the conference. But other general
websites I would want a checkbox as to whether to add me to the list....
even if it is checked by default I don't mind... I guess just gives the
(the illusion of) control.
-Matt
--
Matt Hamilton matth at netsight.co.uk
Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Business Vision on the Internet
http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901
Web Design | Zope/Plone Development & Consulting | Co-location | Hosting
> Two things I'd like to know your personal opinions on (ie, not what most
> people think, but what you would actually feel in this situation):
>
> 1 - Would you be pissed off if you got emailled about a course, for a
> website you'd registered for? If so, why would be helpful.
If it was relevant then yeah I wouldn't mind I don't think. I'm trying
to think personally of times something like this happened and my
reaction... actually the best example I can think of is actually paper
based, and is the Wellhouse Consultants newsletter which has training
courses in but also small snippets of examples of code etc that are
often quite interesting (if you are a coder ;) )
> 2 - How often would you not mind hearing from a website you'd subscribed to,
> so long as you could unsubscribe at any time? (weekly, monthly, anytime
> there's an offer, never..)
Hrmm... again thinking of things in the past... Motley Fool I think used
to send me stuff that I found interesting, but that was when I was
remortgaging so was interested in it, I unsubscribed a while after that.
I guess depends on the type of site...eg Bristol Media's mailings I
like cos they are news about what is going on, not sales stuff etc. Yet
the Business West (chamber of commerce) ones I generally skim read then
delete.
> 3 - Would you be pissed off if you were put on a mailing list automatically
> by joining the site, even if there was a very clear unsubscribe link? I
> mean, I would, but only if it was irrelavant content. I'm aware it's really
> bad form though. Or would it be fine?
I think it might bug me. Conferences do this, ie you register for a
conference and they add you automatically to a mailing list, and that is
fine as it is info on the run up to the conference. But other general
websites I would want a checkbox as to whether to add me to the list....
even if it is checked by default I don't mind... I guess just gives the
(the illusion of) control.
-Matt
--
Matt Hamilton matth at netsight.co.uk
Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Business Vision on the Internet
http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901
Web Design | Zope/Plone Development & Consulting | Co-location | Hosting