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> Users do not understand the spam button is meant for spam, not for anything they don't want to receive anymore Users don't want to receive your god damned ne

by s17n 3y ago

> Users do not understand the spam button is meant for spam, not for anything they don't want to receive anymore Users don't want to receive your god damned newsletter. Just stop using email as a marketing channel.

TrendyCPU 3y ago
I appreciate email as a marketing channel. I sign up for several newsletters. I read them sometimes. I don't at others. If I find they offer nothing of interest or value to me, I unsubscribe. If I continue receiving emails after unsubscribing, then we have a problem. I rarely have issues with companies which actually abide by things like the CAN SPAM Act.
lucb1e 3y ago
What is it with these comments? I'm not sending you a "damned" newsletter, go complain to someone else. Emails from my server are either my personal emails, or from one of various websites/tools which can send you emails, for example to notify you of when a player you chose to follow uploaded a new level, when the local river is exceptionally low or rising sharply or whatnot, when security updates were applied... thing that you asked to receive. I'm sorry if you're as pissed off about marketing garbage as I am but I am not your problem. At least to hobbyist services like mine, by hitting spam and not using the proper unsubscribe mechanism on emails that are not spam by any definition, it becomes very hard to run these things and not have a quarter of the people (particularly on google services) complain they don't receive the requested email. They assume the problem lies with me because google couldn't possibly ever make a mistake, they're too big for that and clearly it works for everyone else (yeah, everyone else runs commercial services and either indirectly contracts or employs people whose full-time job it is to make sure that sent emails dance to the tune of a few big providers)
- s17n 3y ago
  It was because of this line: > So if someone wants to annoy you, they can sign up for your newsletter I'm sure you aren't the problem, but in general, every time you do business with any company they sign you up for marketing garbage on an opt-out basis. I personally do actually use the "proper unsubscribe mechanism" on these things but I have absolutely no sympathy for them and I hope Google just decides to unilaterally end this practice.

by s17n 3y ago

TrendyCPU 3y ago

I appreciate email as a marketing channel. I sign up for several newsletters. I read them sometimes. I don't at others. If I find they offer nothing of interest or value to me, I unsubscribe. If I continue receiving emails after unsubscribing, then we have a problem. I rarely have issues with companies which actually abide by things like the CAN SPAM Act.

lucb1e 3y ago

What is it with these comments? I'm not sending you a "damned" newsletter, go complain to someone else. Emails from my server are either my personal emails, or from one of various websites/tools which can send you emails, for example to notify you of when a player you chose to follow uploaded a new level, when the local river is exceptionally low or rising sharply or whatnot, when security updates were applied... thing that you asked to receive. I'm sorry if you're as pissed off about marketing garbage as I am but I am not your problem. At least to hobbyist services like mine, by hitting spam and not using the proper unsubscribe mechanism on emails that are not spam by any definition, it becomes very hard to run these things and not have a quarter of the people (particularly on google services) complain they don't receive the requested email. They assume the problem lies with me because google couldn't possibly ever make a mistake, they're too big for that and clearly it works for everyone else (yeah, everyone else runs commercial services and either indirectly contracts or employs people whose full-time job it is to make sure that sent emails dance to the tune of a few big providers)

s17n 3y ago
It was because of this line: > So if someone wants to annoy you, they can sign up for your newsletter I'm sure you aren't the problem, but in general, every time you do business with any company they sign you up for marketing garbage on an opt-out basis. I personally do actually use the "proper unsubscribe mechanism" on these things but I have absolutely no sympathy for them and I hope Google just decides to unilaterally end this practice.