I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement

Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by atsaloli on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:04PM (#19210900)

Any problems with Google shutting down accounts due to mass mailing? We run our business on G Suite, getting locked out would be catastrophic.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by ajaygoel on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:16PM (#19211009)

It does happen, but it's rare. You have to be a true spammer or phisher to get shut down, and we've found that Google is a lot more lenient with G Suite accounts than regular gmail.com accounts.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by gk1 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:46PM (#19211306)

> You have to be a true spammer

And what exactly is a "true spammer," in your view? Your product allows people send 10,000[1] emails at once to people who never opted-in.

You and your product enable spam. Shame on you.

https://www.gmass.co/blog/you-can-now-send-10000-emails-with...

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by tomp on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:39PM (#19212252)

Isn’t an opt-in email spam already? Personally I’d prefer to not get opt-in emails (as I’ve already opted in on the website where I put my email into the “subscribe” box) so looks like this product works OK...

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by martin_a on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:02PM (#19212464)

Anyone could enter your email into that subscribe box. You totally want double opt-in.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by sjs382 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:29PM (#19211146)

> It does happen, but it's rare.

How do you know it's rare? Is there a number you can cite? What's that number based on? Like the OP said, getting your G-Suite account banned is pretty catastrophic, so I hope that's not just a(n informed) guess.

> Google is a lot more lenient with G Suite accounts than regular gmail.com accounts

Can you provide evidence for this assertion?

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by ajaygoel on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:37PM (#19211221)

I could query my system and get numbers. My comments are based on the number of times I've heard a user say "Google shut down my account." It's maybe once a month. And then when I look at what they were sending, it's pretty spammy.

And if you're a G Suite user, and your G Suite domain otherwise has a good reputation, one single user may get "suspended" for 24 hours, but I've never seen a G Suite user permanently banned UNLESS the whole point of creating that G Suite account on a particular domain was to send out mass emails through every single user account.

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Re:I Hit $115k/Month with a Status Quo Improvement by atsaloli on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:19PM (#19211042)

Thank you!

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