The Cold Email Handbook

Re:The Cold Email Handbook by MrVandemar on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:00PM (#42395776)

I'm quite sure you can do all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid thinking of yourself as a spammer.

Here's my basic criteria for spam:

1. It's unsolicited.

2. It's trying to sell something / exploit people.

In my grading scale I classify you as a spammer. A "bespoke" spammer perhaps, but I still do not want to waste time reading anything you send me, or waste time even clicking "mark as spam", unless I ask for it. You would be stealing my mental CPU cycles (which are few and precious).

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Re:The Cold Email Handbook by handfuloflight on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:46PM (#42396311)

> 2. It's trying to sell something / exploit people.

Are these synonymous?

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Re:The Cold Email Handbook by MrVandemar on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:50PM (#42396323)

No. I'm drawing a distinction between “I want to sell you something” and “click this link to a website that strongly resembles, but is not, YourBank to transfer all your money to us.”

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Re:The Cold Email Handbook by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:10AM (#42396666)

I think / is usually reserved for synonyms. Should just use the word "or" if it's this or that.

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Re:The Cold Email Handbook by MrVandemar on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:44AM (#42440915)

Yes / No

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