[CH] My Naivete' / My Apologies
John G. Zemek (jgzemek@juno.com)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:16:30 -0700
Yesterday evening I sent out a message to you, a group of people who are
known as Chile-Heads. I have never subscribed to such a list before and
I didn't know how many people the list included. I had written to the
owner of the list and asked him/her if such a 'solicitation' would be
appropriate, thinking that it might not. I didn't understand exactly
what the method was to contact him/her because I didn't understand
exactly how I had subscribed to the list. I had actually tried several
times and each time the message was returned to me with messages telling
me that I hadn't done something right.
Well, anyway, I guess I got on the list and after reading cats, cookbooks
and telephone rates, I thought that my 'solicitation' wasn't all that out
of place. Still, I wasn't sure how to send a message to everyone on the
list. Again, I tried several times and each time it came back. Finally I
sent it out, all the time wondering if it would actually reach anybody.
I guess it did!
I guess it offended quite a few of you, for which I apologize. It was
only through reading the many messages referring to SPAM that I began to
get the idea that this somehow referred to sending mass e-mail messages
to people on a list whom you don't know, or something like that.
I apologize.
As you can tell, I'm new to this type of thing.
Again, I apologize.
John
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