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Whoever is telling web companies that it is a good idea to suddenly start mailing "newsletters" to people that signed up for accounts is lying to them. Over the
by jccalhoun 12y ago
Whoever is telling web companies that it is a good idea to suddenly start mailing "newsletters" to people that signed up for accounts is lying to them. Over the past year or so I've started getting emails from web sites I haven't visited in years - for example I signed into an old hotmail account and apparently fark is sending out newsletters now?
The only thing these things do is make me click unsubscribe and make a mental note that the site sucks.
- csbrooks 12y agoHave they lost anything when you do that, though? You weren't really a customer or user anymore anyway, and now they can figure that out. If they send out that email to 100 people, and 95 inactive users unsubscribe but 5 become active users again, that's a huge net gain for them, right?
- elf25 12y agoYes! I got not one but TWO phone calls from USA Today because I placed a single classified ad in the paper at least 15 years ago!!