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Spamming - No Friend of Mine

As you may have probably figured out by now, Kelly and I thought we needed to add a second blog to WEENC (like we really needed more to do!). One that would be different from Naked Musings from the Veranda, the blog we started because sometimes there are things we want to say that just don’t justify doing an entire column on.

The second blog is Big Girl Panties and is specifically for those times we (okay it’s mostly Dalene but still…) need to rant about something that just ticks us off. We chose the name because we are always telling people to put on their big girl panties and deal with it when they want to whine about something.

So we plan to use this blog to whine a little, to rant a little, to blow off a little steam with the complete understanding that when we are through voicing our opinion, it will be time to put on our Big Girl Panties and deal with it!

Here it goes…
We’ve had WEENC up for just over a year now. We’ve been loving the work, the magazine, the feedback we get from you – our fabulous readers!!! It lifts our hearts to know that so many people have benefitted from what we’ve put out there. For a year now, whenever we see a message come in from our Contact Us page, we’ve been thrilled to open it and see the complimentary notes from all of you. It has done our hearts (and our egos) good to get these messages.

But lately we’ve dreaded getting those messages and I’ll tell you why. It’s because we’ve been receiving these:

Let us do the tedious SEO work for you. You know your business, we know SEO. Our rates are some of the most competitive in the industry. We will put in writing that everything we do adheres to all ethical Search Engine Optimization guidelines. At a minimum you owe it to yourself and your business to reply to this email so I can send you more information.

I’m not going to include the contact information of the person who sent this to us here but you know who you are. It really bugs me that these companies are using our Contact Us page in this manner. This isn’t the only one we’ve received and this isn’t the only message of this type we’ve received. We’ve gotten all sorts of invitations to buy products and services over the last few months.

I know, I know, if you put contact information out there you’re going to get spammed. It's just like the regular snail mail. If you have an address and put out a mailbox you're going to get junk in it. Junk you didn't want and don't need.

I’m not opposed to folks selling their products and services on the internet. Gosh, isn’t that exactly what we’re doing here at WEENC. We’ve got a product and we hope you take advantage of the offers our advertisers are putting out there. But we don’t spam our readers and it bugs me a little that businesses are spamming us.

If you are a spammer and you’ve gotten our Contact Us page linked into your system I have one request for you – Stop It!

Let us go back to hearing from our readers with their comments, questions and concerns about WEENC and our contributors. If you have something to sell we'll no doubt buy it if and when we need it. You don't need to fill up our mailbox with junk.

Thanks. Now put on your Big Girl Panties and go out there and make it a great day!