Stupid Entrepreneur Tricks: Blast Email From:Mail Reflector
In between twitter updates tonight, I kept seeing replies to the same email pop up from my Outlook. That email came from an entrepreneur who was looking for "partners" or possibly funding. There's nothing wrong with that, right?Well, try blasting that to a large VC distribution list, with that same distribution list (mail reflector) in the From: field. Bad combination.
Most of the replies are "take me off your distribution list ASAP", "how did I get on this list" or a whole bunch of "me too's" -- total replies now exceed
Kudos to Jack Biddle of Novak Biddle and Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan of Nautic Partners for realizing that every reply only perpetuated the pain.
I was going to reply with a similar refrain, but thought this blog post might do more good...
UPDATE: @peterkaminski noticed too, counting over 75 replies, with better terminology. To be precise, this looks more like a mail reflector than a distribution list.
Labels: blast email, elizabeth de saint-aignan, jack biddle, lightspeed, mayfield, nautic partners, novak biddle, openview, stupid entrepreneur tricks
Posted by VC Dan | 5/19/2008
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Comments (1)
That reminds me of an email sent by a film producer to a everyone on his email list. He was going on about some political scandal. Then it started, it seemed that on his list was a few disgruntled investors and ex-employees who then decided it was Payback Time. It started with one "you owe me money you SOB" to pictures of him in compromising situations. The more he tried to stop it by replying all, only threw more kindling on the fire. Then other people started to make friends and would email all about getting together to complain about the producer (with him in the reply chain). Messy. But it was a classic example of schadenfreude at its best. :O) ophelia "take me off the list" chong
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