Bulk emails and Office 2007

[susandennis]

Here are my rules for bulk mailings - if I'm off base, tell me.

• If I request to be included on emails, send me whatever you want. 
• If I ask to be excluded, do not send me any more. Further mailings will be trashed and ignored.
• Everyone I know is allowed one unsolicited bulk sending every six months (once a year is better) for the sole purpose of informing of change in email address or the like.
• Anything else I receive that I cannot ascertain the sender and/or specific individuals who received it, is junk/spam and will be trashed and ignored.

And particularly, if you are asking me a favor, if it's not worth your time and trouble to ask me individually then it's no longer worth my time to respond at all even to say no. 

You can call me susanhardassdennis.

I bought a copy of Office 2007.  I will, of course, want it on my new computer and can wait if I have to (no, really, I can) but...  so I filed a question on the Microsoft community forums about how best to move Office 2007 from one computer to another. I suspect the licensing has gotten a little more stringent that airplane licensing and I didn't want to fuck it up.  An MVP in the forum told me to just download and use the trial until my new computer comes.  I don't really want to do that but it does make the most sense.  The trial is good for 60 days and my new computer should be here by then.  So I've downloaded it and now I'm going to install. 

Comments

[unzeugmatic.livejournal.com]

But what if the bulk email has a subject line of "Cheese!"?

[susandennis]

Ah but you missed the first bullet. I will have signed up for Cheese!

[barefoot-dyke.livejournal.com]

i used to have as my email signature "if you receive something that says to forward to all your friends, pretend you don't know me."

[susandennis]

perfect!

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

I dont think you are a hard ass at all. I dont send bulk email, Of course I guess LJ is my way to bulk spam people, but folks have more of an opt out capability here.

[susandennis]

I have had a couple of people fight with me. "But just because I send it out ot people I think might care, does not make it spam!!!" Au contraire, my misguided one. If anyone on your list of 'peopole I think might care' has been asked and given you permission, then not spam. If anyone on your list has not been asked then Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam! spam!!

And your LJ point is perfect. I figured you can skip right by my entries OR even filter me out.

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

What about doing an outlook rule where any email she sends that you are not in the to or cc line go straight to the trash?

[saveferris.livejournal.com]

I really get what you are saying. Especially about taking the time to make an individual one-on-one request.

It reminds me of one of my HUGE pet-peeves: Bulk text-messages. It's like, "Wow. I can't believe you actually took the time to add me to the distribution so I could see the same 'Merry Christmas' you sent to 60 other people... Touching."

[yesthatjill.livejournal.com]

I love your rules.

I will bulk-ask for things at my work that we need a lot of people to volunteer to do. But I don't even hit up my friends over email, I ask in person, because that, to me, shows that I want their help, specificially.