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I apparently got signed up for some company on my work email and now I get a series of emails from some B2B company. I unsubscribe. Next day, another company. U

by csours 4y ago

I apparently got signed up for some company on my work email and now I get a series of emails from some B2B company. I unsubscribe. Next day, another company. Unsubscribe. Next day, another company. Its trivial, but it's so fucking annoying that I've visualized doing violent things as I hit unsubscribe.

jonathanlydall 4y ago
I especially love the cold contact B2B emails which I ignore, only to have a follow up email some weeks later to the effect of "I'm just following-up on the email I sent you previously...", as if I had actually ever expressed interest in doing business with them. If they were being honest the email would read "You probably deliberately ignored and deleted my previous email, but I'm hoping you're in that very low percentage of people that if I send this 'follow-up' email, maybe you'll be interested". The volume is low enough for now that I still add each sender's domain to our Exchange online's mail flow rules to block with a rejection message to the effect of "The recipient has deliberately blocked cold contact messages from senders such as yourself. Please remove the recipient from your mailing lists.". It brings me great satisfaction to know that going forward system f-off messages are being sent to these people with zero extra effort, or even knowledge on my part.
samayylmao 4y ago
I went to a Gartner conference one year because my work paid for it. RIP my work inbox ever since. my email has been sold and sold over and over again. Gartner tells you what you probably already knew them sells your information.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  With the companies I've run in the past, I've set up temporary email addresses for all of my employees going to them, just because of this. The email addresses are removed a couple of weeks after the conference ends, which gives everyone time to give their actual email addresses to anyone who contacts them that they want to keep talking with.

by csours 4y ago

jonathanlydall 4y ago

I especially love the cold contact B2B emails which I ignore, only to have a follow up email some weeks later to the effect of "I'm just following-up on the email I sent you previously...", as if I had actually ever expressed interest in doing business with them. If they were being honest the email would read "You probably deliberately ignored and deleted my previous email, but I'm hoping you're in that very low percentage of people that if I send this 'follow-up' email, maybe you'll be interested". The volume is low enough for now that I still add each sender's domain to our Exchange online's mail flow rules to block with a rejection message to the effect of "The recipient has deliberately blocked cold contact messages from senders such as yourself. Please remove the recipient from your mailing lists.". It brings me great satisfaction to know that going forward system f-off messages are being sent to these people with zero extra effort, or even knowledge on my part.

samayylmao 4y ago

I went to a Gartner conference one year because my work paid for it. RIP my work inbox ever since. my email has been sold and sold over and over again. Gartner tells you what you probably already knew them sells your information.

JohnFen 4y ago
With the companies I've run in the past, I've set up temporary email addresses for all of my employees going to them, just because of this. The email addresses are removed a couple of weeks after the conference ends, which gives everyone time to give their actual email addresses to anyone who contacts them that they want to keep talking with.