Re:When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day
by npsimons on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @03:06PM
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Except as an email admin, the answers aren't the same. Suddenly getting all your emails as bouncing, and the receivers won't tell you why? Maybe some retard marked your IP as dynamic or dialup. Get a whole swath of people unsubscribing after you send a bunch of emails? Pretty sure sign to tone it down a bit.
I don't appreciate getting bogged down in automated emails anymore than the next person, but that's one of the reasons I don't hand out my email address very often. People should really be careful who they give their email address to, and less websites should require an email address for anything but business and very obvious newsletters.
Re:When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day
by mercurial on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @03:40AM
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> Except as an email admin, the answers aren't the same. Suddenly getting all your emails as bouncing, and the receivers won't tell you why? Maybe some retard marked your IP as dynamic or dialup. Get a whole swath of people unsubscribing after you send a bunch of emails? Pretty sure sign to tone it down a bit.
Sure. But at the same time, if the company intentionally requires a daily amount of attention from prospective customers, it is not entirely unfair if prospective customers occasionally cause some measure of inconvenience from the company. If you don't value my time, why should I value yours? Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I have a hard time keeping track of which companies I actually want emails from and how many companies tricked me into signing up for email by defaulting the "Spam me with marketing" somewhere on the page I used to sign up. Especially if a company is inconsistent with emails (no emails for a year, then 5 in a week).
So, sometimes I just get sick of dealing with it and start marking things as spam.
Unsubscribing has the added benefit of being more direct, in a "hey, we spammed this guy with 4 emails in three days, then he suddenly unsubscribed", instead of going "why are we being marked as spam? our lists are completely opt-in!".
The answer to both of those questions is the same.