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Friday, October 30, 2009

IDEA: email per country

This probably a niche market, but I think people who travel often might appreciate it. In the group of expats I know who straddle China and their home country, they spend roughly one month per yeah at home, sometimes going back twice or more- besides business trips to other parts of Asia and the world. They have lives in all of those locations to maintain- and something that has been driving my inbox buggy is all those location specific emails-

"Join us for a lecture at Kathleen's 5 at Nanjing Road...."

or

"RPS collective hosts a screenprinting 101 this weekend at the Oakland YXZ..."

Maybe its my fault for subscribing to these mailing lists- but its so much easier have info sent to me, instead of me searching to see what cool thing is going on this weekend, wherever I am. Monthly discounts, events, etc. and living in two places has gotten me twice as many (and I do use the discounts!!) Why go out and buy a newspaper if you can have it delivered to your door?

You probably could have an email for each place... but thats another set of business cards, etc and more passwords than I need to remember!

SO I propose that there should be a email sys that filters out emails regarding parties and such per location, so you won't feel let down that you got excited to go see you favorite band, oops, in Boston. Seems silly, but anyone who hurredly skim emails for the details always manages to miss some.

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