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> As part of this investigation, it was also discovered that the company continued to contact some individuals even after they had requested this to stop. If t
by londons_explore 3y ago
> As part of this investigation, it was also discovered that the company continued to contact some individuals even after they had requested this to stop.
If the messages had an opt-out mechanism that worked, they likely would have gotten away with the other things.
- switch007 3y agoIt’s funny how the opt out mechanisms are the buggiest part of all the systems in a company. And the slowest. I had a message the other day: “We will try our best to unsubscribe you within 30 days”. Well, don’t strain yourselves
- nmstoker 3y agoYes, all these "it'll take X days to remove this" responses are an excuse. These things should be automatic. Moonpig won't stop reminding me of the upcoming birthday of someone who has died - I have to wait 2 weeks for something which is painful.
- stavros 3y agoWhat, you think a database can just, like, delete a row, just like that? Don't be ridiculous.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago"Hi there, my name is Little Bobby Tables! Opt out of THIS!"
- londons_explore 3y agoI think it's because some emails might have already been sent and be sitting in the outbound mail queues of various mail servers. Some of those might retry for up to 14 days. Hence, 14 days to be sure you won't get any more emails.
- switch007 3y agoI don’t buy that sorry. Sounds plausible but isn’t an excuse. I can’t imagine many mail servers will retry up to 14 days unless the spammers configured it to do so. That’s a very uncommon length of time. And it’s totally within the spammers’ control to choose and/or configure mail servers with a shorter duration. Just how important do they think their spam is!