It seems that after a year of monitoring Janglo, and enlightening people of the options available for receiving and providing a parnassa to those outside of the Janglo loop, things might just change.

I received a message from the benevolent despot of Janglo, demanding that I stop my "Spamming" ways or he'll be forced to take action against me. We spoke in person, and he persisted that by contacting people who posted on his list, I was a spammer and needed to be dealt with accordingly.

Below is my response:

I believe in honest business, and decent business practices.

I cannot find anywhere on Janglo that says one cannot respond to a post with a suggestion for broadcasting the same message elsewhere. I rarely send an irrelevant message, and when I do, it's because the person mislabeled their message. I do not harvest e-mail addresses.

I also never contact anyone more than once, because that can be annoying. But the single message that I send can easily be deleted if the recipient isn't interested.

That being said, the amount of "thank yous" I receive easily outnumber the "this isn't relevant" messages by about 100 to 1.

 

I recognize that you're trying to protect your subscriber base, but my intentions are good, and I see no error in my ways. Please indulge me if you can justify your claims that I'm doing something wrong, or make a positive suggestion about how I can inform relevant people about their alternatives.

Well, I call it spam, and won't tolerate it. You'll also see on
http://www.janglo.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=126&Itemid=115
that we do expressly forbid such actions.
You probably saw that I unsubscribed both jobshuk emails from receiving Janglo emails. I hope that will end all of this behavior for good.

 In addition, I would like an email from you agreeing that you will never contact members reagrding your site unless they specifically askfor information about job sites. Until you agree to that, I will also block your user from logging in to the site. If I do not receive that agreement in the next two days, I will also delete all mention of jobshuk from the site and instruct my moderators not to allow anything
from you on Janglo anymore.
I hope you will agree to these terms, and not let this go any further.
Thank you.

 I'm not in this business to make enemies, and I don't want to make anyone upset. I suppose that it's in Janglo's rights to run it like a monarchy, but perhaps we can let the people decide.

Is it inappropriate to respond to business ads informing them of more free advertising via JobShuk? Should I stop?
Would it have better if we never met?

(Please respond below)