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My sister-in-law has a blog that sends out email notifications to subscribers (who requested them) when she posts a new article. After a few hundred subscribers
by MaysonL 9y ago
My sister-in-law has a blog that sends out email notifications to subscribers (who requested them) when she posts a new article. After a few hundred subscribers had marked these notices as spam rather than unsubscribing, her blog, email account and entire site got blacklisted. She only managed to get this cleared up via a tech support friend who has contacts at Google.
- maxxxxx 9y agoThis stuff makes me worried about the future. We'll have this massive AI/computer machinery making more and more decisions without any recourse. This will be the ultimate faceless bureaucracy. At work I can almost every day hear someone yelling at his health insurance company because something has been f...ed up. Once they start hiding even more behind automation how can you resolve anything?
- dredmorbius 9y agoAutomated lawsuits.
- user5994461 9y agoYou have an interesting sister in law. In all the blacklisted stories, there is something shady going on with the sender.
- MaysonL 9y agoShe's a weaver, fabric artist, and teacher of fabric arts. Travels the country giving courses. Sells instructional materials and occasional tools and materials. Not a bit of shadiness involved. Your comment is inappropriate for this site.
- polkovnikov-ph 9y agoTell her to be sure there is a distinguishable "unsubscribe" link in letters.
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- PakG1 9y agoYou'd be surprised for how many technology-inept users that wouldn't make a difference. They'll still mark the email as spam. It's easier for many people to understand and easier to click.
- oculusthrift 9y agome too. i consider it spam because i don’t want people sending me random crap and i could care less if it hurts the person sending the mail. either way it gets it out of my way.
- inferiorhuman 9y agoYou'd be surprised how many opt-out messages and messages sent to unverified addresses I get. They all have unsubscribe links but I'll hit report spam each and every time.
- CaptSpify 9y agoIt sometimes can be better to mark it as spam. There was a thing a while back where the unsubscribe link was just verifying that you still check that email account, and you click on links, so they'd send you more spam.
- jopsen 9y agoI'm often signed up for emailing lists because I use a service. Or just gave them my email to see a demo thingy. In general I try to hit unsubscribe if I know I've had business with the company. But if they are clearly just trying to sell more, it goes to spam.
- chimprich 9y agoI would still consider it as unsolicited if I didn't opt in to receive further emails. Just because I bought something from a company once doesn't mean I'm happy to receive a "please rate us" begging email, an offer to look at their other products, and a "merry Christmas to all our customers" message. Not really spam in the traditional sense but these type of emails seem especially prevalent at the moment and dealing with them is a big time sink.
- rapind 9y agoI chased down a spam flag by one of our users a while ago (we only send transactional emails to actual accounts) and actually spoke to the user since he complained about not receiving any of our emails. Turns out he uses the spam button in his email client as a temporary deletion / archive for emails he wants to read later... TLDR; Many users create their own issues by just not giving af. It reminds me of antibacterial hand wash.
- raverbashing 9y agoRemember: these people vote