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When Doing PR For Anti-Spam Firm... Don't Spam
netbuzz writes "Rule #1 when doing PR for an antispam vendor: Don't spam. This isn't exactly brain surgery, yet the fellow at a PR agency called Rocket Science managed to violate Rule #1 while attempting to drum up publicity for Singlefin, which provides e-mail, IM and Web filtering services to the likes of Juno and NetZero. He also violated Rules #2 and #3." Given the hundreds of press releases I get in my inbox on a weekly basis, PR folks in general need to learn that lesson regardless of their clients.
I just slam-dunk this all into the bit bin and hit empty.
I'm particularly amused by sp4m which includes [%TO_ADDRESS]
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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Rocket Science?! Oh, the ironing is delicious...
Dark Reflection
So by that rationale, if I am a personal injury attorney I should start ramming my car into random vehicles?
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
If you are a personal injury lawyer, please drive said car off of a cliff.
Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hangar and no one gets hurt.
More appropriately, you should advertise by putting your bumper sticker on the backs of cars whose brakes you have rigged to randomly lock up while at high speed. Hmm, i should have gone into marketing!
5. linvir got on /. and flamed everyone, showing what a big sexy stud he is
Seriously.
Try and tell me with a straight face that you don't want to do him RIGHT NOW.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Remember the Far Side cartoon where the fellow picks up a brick that has been chucked into his front room with the message: "Bricks through your window? Call Al's Glass...."?