Rogue Email Unites Web Designers and Developers

This morning I received a promotional email from the online service mypsdtohtml.com. This is not uncommon. I receive pretty regular emails from them about a project that they want to help me with (whatever that means). But today little did they know that they would spark a little social community. 

Hi,

Just wondering if you have any more news about the project PSD TO XHTML
that you want to develop with us?

For more questions please contact us or visit our website for price references:
www.mypsdtohtml.com

This email was nothing new, but what was new was that instead of it only being sent directly to me, it was sent to 300 client email address. Now first off, I could go in to the incredibly bad business practice of sharing the contact info of all your clients to all your other clients, but I've heard that blog is already being written. I'll link to it when I get word.

No what wasinteresting, was that from the rapid fire emails back to PSDtoHTML complaining about the situation, conversation from designers started to surface. One person was complaining about an annoying client, and another person could relate and so on.

Thinking more for the need to not be annoyed by constant email blasts, I started a very quick NING social web site. http://psdtohtmldesigners.ning.com/ Like I said more of a way to stop emails, but it could be a way for those to that want to chat to do so, and let the rest of us get back to work. Little did I know that lots of people wanted to chat. Not all 303 email addresses have joined, but within a couple hour 20 + Designers and developers were posting images of their work, talking about themselves and sharing experiences.

Not only was I excited but it confirmed once again this ability for different people from different parts of the world, with a common NICHE interest could quickly connect over a rouge, all be it bad form, email. 

Looking forward to where this leads and looking for more opportunities to find such connections. 

Have you had any experiences like this?  Post a comment or shoot me an @conceptsguy message on twitter.