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Re:Ask HN: Has cold calling/emailing ever worked for you? by dangoldin on Sunday March 19, 2017 @11:53PM (#13911542)
Definitely respect that but a bit too extreme for me. Have you never had a vendor reach out with a potentially useful service?

Occasionally I'll find something useful. And sure I could have found it on my own if I was searching for that specific problem but occasionally something new comes across that piques my curiosity. Even then I end up looking at competing products (love relying on Google's autocomplete to do "product vs" and seeing what shows up).

The spam game is getting better and better too - I wonder what they're going to look like in a few years with some help from ML. At that point they will look personal.

Re:Ask HN: Has cold calling/emailing ever worked for you? by marcus_holmes on Monday March 20, 2017 @12:22AM (#13911670)
Yeah it's getting blurry between spam and targeted ads. I have less objection to targeted ads, because it's not wasting everyone's time - there is some reason for the recipient getting the ad.