Re: The introduction problem, was Thinking outside the box

On 19/03/2013 18:42, John Levine wrote:
>> I don't want 'random' people to email me. In fact I don't know anyone
>> who wants random people to email them.
> Now you do.  I definitely want it to be possible for people who I
> don't already know to email me.  That's where I get most of my work.
> I also get occasional mail from old high school friends and the like.

But the thing is that you have to have told them your email address!

They don't think "I used to know John Levine at high school, and I want 
to email him, so, let's guess his email address is johnl@...", they have 
seen your email address somewhere - either you've told them, or they've 
seen it on a website, or newsletter, or something.

The 'introduction problem' applies to current email as well... If you 
don't know someone's email address, you can't email them. So, that 
doesn't really change.






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