[Ipg-smz] Another day, another puzzling PR pitch lede...

[Mark Brownstein]

Some lists never die: I just got a snail mail offer from a tobacco 
company that was addressed to the person who lived in my house 26 years 
ago.

I was getting phone calls for the attorney who had my phone number 
before I had it - for about ten years, until I canceled my landline 
number. For all I know, whoever got the phone number after I gave it up 
is STILL getting calls for that attorney -- and, no doubt, for me, too.

On 12/20/2019 1:46 PM, Evan Schuman via Ipg-smz wrote:
> Someone once decided that I am a lawyer (I'm not) and that my company is a
> law firm (it's not). I have zero idea where they came up with this, but I
> must get 4 or 5 pitches a week based on this wacky false assumption.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Daniel Dern via
> Ipg-smz
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 4:06 PM
> To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
> Cc: Daniel Dern <dern at pair.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Another day, another puzzling PR pitch lede...
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Mark Brownstein via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> I get a lot of messages that start with something like 'We spoke last
>> week', or 'here's the information you requested,' or, 'we've got the
>> funding you requested,' other blatant lies.
> Yeah, but they are working from the CES list, so it's not one of the other
> Daniel Dern's (there's a few, none related to me).
>
> I understand why folks (not part of the CES kfluffle) mistakenly believe I
> work for Pair (although how that got them to "As PAIR CTO, you..." Etc.
>
> Similarly, one local mini-expo keeps re-pitching me to sponsor a table/etc.
> I have, over the past 3-4 years, written this person multiple times,
> politely saying "I ain't a vendor, I ain't a potential sponsor, take me off
> your list." I never hear back, other than the same damn pitch the following
> year.
>
> DPD
>
>