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Wow - this post is so factually misleading for vast majority readers not living in Canada.
by zaidf 16y ago
Wow - this post is so factually misleading for vast majority readers not living in Canada.
- peteforde 16y agoI'm a Canadian. Not really planning on normalizing my writing to American laws just yet, sorry. For what it's worth, only a small portion of my article deals with Canadian spam laws. The majority of the links are to MailChimp FAQ pages, and they are an American company.
- zaidf 16y agoConsidering you posted this to HN, you have at least some responsibility to take your audience's location into account. I'd suggest a little note stating you're referring to Canadian law. Honestly I am not certain about the point of your post. If it was that "hey make sure your unsubscribes stay under 1%", there are easiesr ways to communicate that without bashing small businesses or linking to spam laws local to your country.
- peteforde 16y agoYesterday, I didn't realize that companies like MailChimp had 1% tolerance, and I was hoping the article would start a conversation; it did. It seems as though this is a common enough problem that people are tweeting about my article, regardless of where they live. You know that there is a huge start-up culture in Toronto, right? Hacker News has hundreds of Canadian readers. Anyhow, unspace.ca implies Canada to me. I'm sorry you were confused.