Am I the only one that finds this sort of thing rage-inducing? Hooray, the art of filling my inbox with spam has been advanced. I know the standard defense:

Am I the only one that finds this sort of thing rage-inducing? Hooray, the art of filling my inbox with spam has been advanced. I know the standard defense: "Oh, but my SAAS startup is totally different. People want my product, they just don't know it until they're part of our sales funnel" or "Yeah, but we only send out emails to people that signed up and then stopped using the service". The simple fact is that these types of "lead capture" strategies are just more effective spamming techniques. That's what your emails are. They're spam. If your business relies on emails to generate leads, then guess what? You're a spammer. >some folks like to hide behind GMail or Yahoo addresses rather than using their work/professional address. Gee, I wonder why? Is it perhaps because their work/professional address is used to get things done and maybe they don't want a bunch of marketing bullshit impeding their productivity? People like this are the exact reason disposable email services like slopsbox exist.