Re: A big brother moment? email reminders of what you haven't done

[Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net>]

Connie Giordano wrote:
> My point is that I find it terribly disturbing that they're tracking what
> I'm NOT doing.... not only is it not their business whether or not I've read
> it, but the irritation factor from sending emails and wasting bandwidth to
> scold me for not doing something is really bad customer relations...
>
> Connie
>   
>
Sounds like they should have a 'no nag' option.

They probably want to track readership, as that ties into ad rates.
I suppose there's no real need to track that individually, though.

cheers
Jay

-- 
Jay Maechtlen
626 444-5112 office
626 840-8875 cell
www.laserpubs.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2009 is your all-in-one authoring and publishing 
solution. Author in Doc-To-Help's XML-based editor,  Microsoft Word or 
HTML and publish to the Web, Help systems or printed manuals. 
http://www.doctohelp.com

Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info. 

Please move off-topic discussions to the Chat list, at:
http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/listinfo/techwr-l-chat