These bands work their tails off every day. Their going to be the ones sitting down with the contract. Don't jump into management unless you have time to manange. When somebody e-mails the website, and wants to know how to get a deal. Theres a standard responce, saying they have to have a lawyer, and begin discussions about sending in a demo.
People get box's and box's of stuff every day.
They don't through it out, It will be kept around. Unless it's really, really bad. Sometimes they'll be rejected because a band doesn't fit in with the lable at the time. There was some issues there, and they weren't quite sure about the future. So they moved them to Arista.