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Ask HN: How to implement a national "do not email" list
Follow-up marketing emails have become obnoxious. Every point of sale (especially brick and mortar) sends a marketing follow up, and it’s not clear how to opt out during the transaction.
Restaurants, bars, parking apps, ticketing apps , first parties, third parties are all “spamming” with promos, surveys.
Since cash is not an option, a single night on the town results in 6-12 emails the following day.
Since no one is addressing the network affects, nor tracking the violations to the CAN-SPAM act
my question for HN community is:
How would you create a national do-not-email list to opt out of automatic marketing enrollment during the point of sale.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoWith a federal law or regulatory rule (FTC). Failing that, more aggressive spam filtering.
- tonymet 1y agoThe issue is false-positives. I do need transaction confirmations, receipts. So spam filtering won’t work in this case. CAN-SPAM should cover this case. Vendors are supposed to be obtaining consent.
- toomuchtodo 1y agoHave you reported any of these emails under CAN-SPAM?
- tonymet 1y agoYes with no real outcome
- apothegm 1y agoJust like the national do not call list it would become an immediate source for those who don’t care to follow the law, namely phishers and other scammers.
- tonymet 1y agoI agree , but you could use a vendor specific hash and log the read operation .