Publishers' E-Mail Lists

[Liblicense-L Listowner <liblicen@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Colleagues on this list:  Below please find a message I just sent 
to a reputable and well-meaning but nontheless annoying publisher 
-- yet one more who decided that I should be placed on an 
e-newsletter mailing list.  This kind of behavior is getting out 
of hand; maybe we need to start a campaign for publishers to 
cease and desist such practice?

Full of cheerful new year spirit but *not* happy with forced 
mailings, which are starting to pile up like junk mail.  Best 
wishes to all, Ann Okerson/Liblicense-l moderator

***** Dear Ms. XXXX:  Please know that readers to not appreciate 
being subscribed by vendors or publishers to their mailing lists 
without prior request or permission.  This kind of behavior (of 
signing up customers whether they want it or not, and making them 
"opt out") is getting beyond acceptable.  I now regularly receive 
several of these kinds of items in a week (and must unsub myself) 
-- this week there have been 5 so far.  Signing up people for 
e-mailings must have been every publishers' new year's 
resolution?

Please in the future could your company discontinue this 
practice?  Thank you.

*****