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Are you saying you've never received any benefit from an email you received that was part of a campaign? Like a discount to your favorite store? Not all uses ar
by ajaygoel 8y ago
Are you saying you've never received any benefit from an email you received that was part of a campaign? Like a discount to your favorite store? Not all uses are commercial, either. We have teachers who use it to communicate with all the parents of their students. A tennis club that emails out the week's upcoming schedule to all players. An HOA communicating with its residents.
- anyfoo 8y agoYour use cases sound very much like opt-in (and low volume) mailing lists, not cold list of contacts without opt in.
- sametmax 8y agoPlease post your personnal email address in the next comment, so I submit it to a few campaigns. I'm sure you'll find benefit in some of them, and some might be even legit like your home town council shedule.
- ajaygoel 8y agoajay AT wordzen DOT com
- JoeSmithson 8y agoI like how you obscured your email address from scrapers in replying to someone so that they could explicitly submit it to spam lists...
- jashmatthews 8y agoI can’t see wait for someone to put his email everywhere. “Did you mean ajay@...”
- ajaygoel 8y agoLooks like someone has a lot of free time on his hands. I've received 4 emails I didn't sign up for in the last couple minutes. https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8e0qpvnzn23opg/Screenshot%202019-02-20%2015.58.44.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8e0qpvnzn23opg/Screenshot%202019-...
- joaomacp 8y agoOh god...
- diminoten 8y agoI just always love rising to these de-anonymization bluffs: dimino@gmail.com. Let's put that good ol' spam filter to the test! I even operate under Inbox Zero, so rest assured I'll deal with every email the supposed mob is going to send me.
- Axsuul 8y agoThis is a pointless straw man argument
- EB66 8y agoIt's a spam tool, plain and simple. The relevancy of that spam is entirely besides the point. Once this app becomes large enough to get on Google's radar it'll likely be shut down. The makers of spam tools often make lots of money in the beginning (e.g., XRumer blog spam), but once they get big, adjustments are made (e.g., CAPTCHA for blog spam) and the tools become ineffective/useless.
- UncleMeat 8y agoAnd some people really do buy health insurance from spam phone calls. That doesn't make it not spam. Spam provides an overall negative value to my life, even if an individual message could conceivably be useful.
- diminoten 8y agoLiterally? I don't think so, no.
- tomnipotent 8y agoSure, I get a lot of value from those emails. But I'd prefer the company that is sending them to be paying for the right to do so, and not circumventing the restrictions of a free email service. I have no doubt Google will discover this and block the service, and we'll all be better off for it.
- x0x0 8y agoYou're claiming that is the majority of your use? If it's an HOA or small mailing list (obviously without DOI), then what is your click tracking functionality for? (I mean, the question answers itself...)