Re: PBM-Aid for American Flagship

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

mylesend@aol.com (MylesEnd) writes:

> Actually, it sounds like one of the few professional things that happened with
>  American Flagship regarding subscribers.  I used to belong to compuserve, have
>  a certain credit card and subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, all over 5
>  years ago were cancelled.  I still get mailings from all of
>  them...still...never stopped getting them.  Companies now treat your address
>  and any other information they get from you as gold.

Which is exactly why Ken should own that mailing list before he uses
it.

I've seen other magazines do similar things, but they always had the
subscribers write in to ask for free issues instead of "borrowing" the
old mailing list without the permission of the new owner. I don't know
if Ken in fact did this; he has yet to make that clear. But if he
did, it would be unethical.

I lost an entire year subscription to Aries magazine when SPI went
bust, so I know how bad it feels to lose money. But ethics are
ethics.

-- g

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Re: PBM-Aid for American Flagship
mylesend@aol.com (MylesEnd)
Tue, 28 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: PBM-Aid for American Flagship
mylesend@aol.com (MylesEnd)
Tue, 28 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000