'Junk mail'

[Guest guest]

Hi Kelle and everyone,

 

>I'm writing in response to Tammy's paragraph about list members contact

>information being sold.

 

I just wanted to clarify that Kelle's statement above is not about any of

SFBAVeg's email list contact info being sold... but a discussion thread

resulting from an anonymous request for information which included email contact

info.

 

 

Kelle, I'm glad you wrote and while I do feel strongly about junk mail, I know

there are other opinion in the universe apart from mine :-)

 

What is " junk " to one could be " treasure " to another. For example, someone

helping me in my garden once pulled up my basil plant thinking it was a weed. I

used to have a manager who loved getting catalogs and other unsolicited mail...

 

Junk mail is one of my " pet peeves " ... Even if the organization uses recycled

paper, and I recycle it (which I do), and the organization has the best

intentions which are fully in alignment with my beliefs, I still think

organizations who collect this information have a responsibility to respect an

individual's wishes not to be placed on mailing lists. They have a

responsibility to their members who support their organization to spend the

money in a manner that best supports the organization's goals.

 

Personally, I've never given money to a new group resulting from only a direct

mailing. I donate to groups that I have first-hand experience with or groups

that have impressed me with the campaigns they are conducting (from live

presentations or articles in magazines or online publications). Usually if I

get too many mailings from a group, I will stop supporting them since I feel

they are spending too much money on mailings and probably classifying them (in

their annual reporting) as educational outreach instead of fundraising to make

their bottom line look better. (Which the " Animal People " newspaper has

reported on occasionally)

 

That's just my two cents, which of course will vary from everyone else... Attack

of the Junk Mail Clones starts at my home!

 

Tammy

 

 

 

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