Mezzoblue
24th Apr 2007, 04:56 am
Somehow, and I'm just guessing here, but somehow my email address ended up on a centralized mailing list for public relations firms representing the tech industry. All of a sudden I'm getting in the neighbourhood of 2 or 3 press releases directly emailed per day, all from different people at various PR agencies. This started around a week ago (http://twitter.com/mezzoblue/statuses/31270311).
From what I can tell, these are legit emails from real humans; they're mostly of the product announcement/request for review variety. They're usually promoting software or web sites. They're personalized, and they don't really strike me as overly spammy. But they also don't appear to have any obvious opt-out mechanism.
I'm more curious than annoyed... for now. I'm sure this is just business-as-usual for PR types, though it's going to get old real quick. I've emailed back a few of them to find out if there's a central source. I'll report back here if I get an answer.
More... (http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/04/23/pr/)
From what I can tell, these are legit emails from real humans; they're mostly of the product announcement/request for review variety. They're usually promoting software or web sites. They're personalized, and they don't really strike me as overly spammy. But they also don't appear to have any obvious opt-out mechanism.
I'm more curious than annoyed... for now. I'm sure this is just business-as-usual for PR types, though it's going to get old real quick. I've emailed back a few of them to find out if there's a central source. I'll report back here if I get an answer.
More... (http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/04/23/pr/)