Been YAL’d At Lately… Say What?
Have you been YAL’d at today? Yep, I’m talking about a new type of spam, and I am a victim and a purveyor.
YAL, Yet Another Link, is that email you get that just has a link in it. Please do not send me any YAL’s anymore, and I promise to try not to send any YAL’s on my end. There are two reasons why YAL’s suck:
1. There’s a good chance I have already seen the link (thanks to the beauty of RSS)
2. If I haven’t seen it, at least give me a one line highlight or a bullet point or something
Make the YAL receiver’s life easier… Presumably you’ve read the link and found it interesting. Provide a quick highlight or two along w/ the link. Tell what is good, what is bad, what’s the point. Do not just send a link. Even worse than that, do not just paste the contents of the link and send that – that is double sucky!
Okay, I must admit I was a YAL contributor and still am (I almost sent two YAL’s today), but I am trying to become a member of the YAAL community. That’s Yet Another Annotated Link and that is okay 
The CEO of my company is a good YAAL member; he sends out lots of links but most of the time provides a sentence or two to set it up and that is mucho appreciated!
YAAL me baby!
1 comment December 11th, 2006