I’m reading through some of the submissions to this week’s Blawg Review, which should be up sometime around midnight, but one stood out to me as the perfect example of what to avoid when submitting a link to Blawg Review (or a similar blog event, like Carnival of the NHL).
Here is the email submission, stripped of identifying information:
From: name(at)firm.com
Subject: Blawg Review #31
Date: November 4, 2005 2:13:07 PM EST
To: post(at)blawgreview.com
www.domain.com/blog/perm…##
Please visit our weblog, www.domain.com® for legal news.
Firstname Lastname
name@firm.com
This email, including its contents and attachments, if any, is a confidential communication and is not to be delivered to, or read by, any person other than the addressee. This communication is protected by the attorney-client and attorney work-product privileges, must not be disclosed to any other party, and must be treated in a confidential manner. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26(b)(3), Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 501, California Code of Civil Procedure sections 2018.010, et seq. and California Evidence Code sections 950, et seq.
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Firm Name
Street Address
City, US #####-#### USA
Telephone: ###-###-####
Facsimile: ###-###-####
www.firm.com
When pitching a post idea, please include a post title or a couple of sentences describing what the post is about. In general, keep the boilerplate in your signature to one short paragraph or less.
The Blawg Review Submission Guidelines provide a good model of how to submit a post.
There are some interesting posts that were submitted this week…
