Email lists
State Street Global Advisors appear to have an email list whereby if you email a certain address (or reply to an email you received from their mailing list at that address) it mails every single person on that mailing list. It doesn't matter if you work for SSgA or not. This doesn't seem good practice.I've found this out as I subscribe to their (good) weekly economics briefing and someone in the company has replied asking the author who it goes to. Various people, ones who I imagine love to use the 'reply to all' function anyway, are replying. Some are saying they have been receiving it for a few years and hope they didn't get the author in trouble, others are saying 'take me off the list please', others are saying 'keep me on the list but take me off this 'get all emails' list' (that's not going to work, is it?) and others are in vain (and in doing so adding to the chaos) pointing out that every email is going to every one. I've had 20 so far, and it's only been 10 hours. Update: 24, and thinking about it that was overnight in Europe and the US.
posted by Matthew @ 10/03/2006 07:13:00 AM
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