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A comment on Ask HN: ‪When did email spam become an acceptable “growth hack”?.

Re:Ask HN: ‪When did email spam become an acceptable “growth... by nunez on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:05AM (#13470974)
Did you know that most of the sign-ups credit card companies receive come through snail mail?

As long as email continues to be the primary communication medium of the internet, companies will spam people through it. It takes exactly zero effort to set up Mailchimp and run a 50K email campaign. Everyone reads email. If the subject is curious enough, people will read it.

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Re:Ask HN: ‪When did email spam become an acceptable “growth... by builtinbuffalo on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:21AM (#13471073)
Except if you do that you won't get very far. At least with MailChimp, which does a lot of policing. You'd be luck to get a few thousand emails out before their spam filters pause your campaign.
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