privacy of contacts

["Dave VanderWall" <dave@vanderwall.org>]

James sent me a message off-list with his draft of the initial contact
email:

"Here are the revised contact letters for sending out to clubs and
organizations. A lot of them might not know what the AGA is, so I
re-wrote your rough draft to highlight the organization. I also tighened
things up a bit - I don't think we need worry about telling them we
won't sell their information."

I like the copy you sent, but I'm not comfortable sending out anything
that doesn't explicitly invite them to contact me and be removed from
the list.  Nope, nada, won't do it.  Sorry to be a bear about this, but
we at least need to have something at the end of the message.  Here's
what I propose, in the interest of tightening things up:

"If you do not wish to be contacted please reply to this email and let
me know."

How's that for short and sweet?  I understand the
selling-your-information thing is overkill and does not fit into the
context of your revised copy, but the recipients have to be able to
"opt-out" of these mailings.

I'll send you my revision for approval.


Thanks,

Dave VanderWall

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