Comments on: The BBC hasn’t a clue

By: Billy Deakin

Billy Deakin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:54:43 +0000

I also read this a couple of weeks ago but at least the BBC have removed the offending video now and issued an apology to Freestuff.co.uk

As mentioned by a previous commenter, journalists are happy to jump on keywords like SPAM without really understanding what they are talking about, or doing proper research. I guess they know that a term like that will elicit an emotional response from readers. It’s a shame because a lot of the general public do have a negative view of all commercial email, and really don’t understand what it means to opt in to a subscription. An organtisation like the BBC should be educating people, not confusing them further.

By: Affiliate Marketing Guide

Affiliate Marketing Guide — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:45:05 +0000

Saw the story a few weeks ago and was appalled. Some lady complaining that she subscribed to an autoresponder service and subsequently got emails. Well when you subscribe to an opt in list, of course you will get emails. That’s what you subsribed for

By: Get Rich With PPC Coach

Get Rich With PPC Coach — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:56:14 +0000

This is a real shame. There is already so much confusion about ‘spam’ among the general populace and unfortunately reporting like this just makes it worse.

By: Marv

Marv — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:06:26 +0000

This is yet another example of the BBC (as well as almost every other major media company) jumping on the band wagon against “Buzz words” like spam.

Just because most people in their audience have a rough or vague idea what the word means they feel they have to reinforce positive or negative links to it. The problem is they end up creating false impressions of loads of internet based services or websites, the same thing happened with napster and is now happening with bitorrent.

I think the basic truth is most people don’t read what they are signing up for they just jam their email address in then complain when they get an email through.