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If someone were to do this to me, it would bring me from on-the-fence firmly into the "no" camp. It shows a blatant lack of respect, IMO.

That was my initial reaction as well. But after thinking about it - if the guy emailed me every day with a good reason, I think I'd start to be gently amused. Could work. Irritatingly ;)

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I think that may be the part that bothers me more -- this could well be beneficial to me, but by showing me a complete lack of respect, he's ensuring that it never happens. If, instead, he provided me a couple good reasons upfront, we'd probably make things work, without emails badgering me.

I wouldn't read the emails after day three, I'd probably have them automatically filtered by day five.

wouldn't it be easier to just send an email back saying "I'm not interested; please don't send more reasons", after reading something along the lines of "Let them know that if they ask you to stop then you’ll stop, but otherwise you’re really excited about talking to them."

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