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I send out a newsletter to customers about once per quarter. All recipients have opted in by actively checking a checkbox. I'm pretty sure these mail services
by IAmEveryone 9y ago
I send out a newsletter to customers about once per quarter. All recipients have opted in by actively checking a checkbox.
I'm pretty sure these mail services already monitor unsubscribe rates and spam flags. But there will always be false positives, i. e. legitimate recipients flagging a newsletter because they no longer want to receive it, or because they forgot they agreed.
Spam recipients, on the other hand, may not report these messages often enough. Some just don't bother, others rely on their mail client or company's filters.
That could make it difficult to find a reliable cut-off separating legitimate and spam mail.
The only real solution to this would be for the mail services to handle opt-in procedures. That, however, would effectively lock you in to a single provider, because it'd be suicide to change providers and ask for confirmation from every recipient again.
- mcny 9y agoI don't bother reporting spam on one account. In fact, I created a rule specifically filtering spam to go to my inbox. Pretty much the only people who bother me are those who don't set their dates properly. What I mean is they set their spam to say June 02 on an email sent on February 06 of the same year. I will not hesitate to report any such email as spam. This doesn't happen often but I hope google (or any email provider) punishes such senders severely maybe even blacklist the domain.
- dalore 9y agoYeah the advice on not clicking unsubscribe or report on spam emails is wrong advice. It doesn't verify your email (other ways to do that easily). But reporting or unsubscribing will often get you off that list.