How to be totally obnoxious when asking for a link exchange

A blogger pal of mine (who shall remain nameless) was recently approached by a fairly well-known blog (who shall remain nameless – we’ll call them blog X) for a link exchange. At first it all seemed fine and dandy. Then my pal noticed that other bloggers responses to said link exchange were popping up in her email.

Blogger pal o’ mine had not noticed at first, (because who clicks on Gmail details every time) but this email had been sent out to a bunch of folks. She was just one of many emails listed. This is shoddy link exchange handling. At the very least the sender, blog X, could have sent the email to recipients via Bcc (which will send a blind copy).

Why this sucks:

First of all, I KNOW, anyone with an Internet connection can find an email for me if they try. However, that doesn’t mean I like it when bloggers I don’t know send my email off to lots of other bloggers I don’t know, simply to gain a link exchange agreement. That’s just bad manners.

Secondly, like most bloggers I get loads of email. I don’t need a bunch of emails from other folks on list because they hit reply all. A more crowded email box is enough right there to make me turn down a link exchange.

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