Surely an aff manager asking you to take a look at their program isn’t that far away from your role, as an affiliate?
Yes, it is far away. We have no obligations to any programs other than those we have contract with. Just because you work in the same industry as I it doesn’t mean I have to read your emails! Not to mention that only an idiot would sign up with a program through a spam email…
What some of the aff managers fail to grasp is that those spam emails end up hurting their legitimate communications. The few spam emails that slip through my spam filter do end up marked as spam. When enough people do this – the spam filter marks all future email from that company as spam and a lot of affiliates end up not getting otherwise legitimate emails from their aff managers from that company.