[OT] Need Some Help Here...

[Joe Zeff]

On 05/05/2011 11:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> You refer to me but respond to Joe Zeff's comment rather than mine, so
> I'll rephrase my point: how can you expect people to click on a random
> URL without even explaining what it's for? Saying "it's for my new app"
> is simply not good enough.

And I'll take it a step further, Patrick.  Why do you expect random 
strangers on a mailing list to give their email addresses to an unknown 
website that doesn't explain what it's going to do with them?  For all I 
knew (or, for that matter, know) doing that signs me up for a spammer's 
mailing list that's impossible to get off of again.  You may trust the 
people running that site, and you may even be right to do so, but I know 
nothing about them and have learned over the decades why trusting 
strangers I can't even see (such as the owners of a website) is 
generally not a good idea.