Are you taking on new clients? No, but now you look like a spammer :(
June 28th, 2011Check out this email I get about, oh, once a day (edited to take out the person’s name who sent it):
The problem with this is that you look like a spammer when you send this.
I know, I know, you didn’t do it on purpose.
What can you do about it?
- Be careful what networks you sign up for. I know people how sign up for every new network that comes around, and I regularly get emails from them that I just delete. Maybe even legitimate emails… but they send so much noise, I don’t even pay attention to emails from them. You don’t want people to think of your emails like this, do you?
- If you sign up for a new thing, don’t do anything that might send emails to your address book (including uploading your address book).
I think many people do this by mistake, but it makes email from you look like spam… and you don’t want that – be careful 
I’ve been getting these too. The funniest one was the one I got from someone I DO NOT like and doesn’t like me. No way I wanted any referrals from him.
The tricky part though, about these services is it can be devilishly hard sometimes to tell that you’re sending something out to all your contacts. Care is the word, I agree with you.
I did this by mistake with this particular one in fact. I agree with Juli on this. I haven’t been real active with it and haven’t seen anything in a week or so.