Tag: Unsubscribe
Think you don’t spam? Think again!
Who has never sent email spam? Maybe you wanted to promote something, contact friends or relatives you never really emailed before (at least with a normal email), send a chain letter that promised success and money or to promote a garage sale using your local hockey team email list? Maybe you sent a message for your business using a large contact list grabbed on a corporate email with a multitude of CC’d addresses? Or did you ‘borrow’ the customer list from work for your own use? (Oh, that’s bad!) (May 05, 2010)
(Un)subscribe me
Hundreds of emails get blocked daily by your spam filters, but sometimes one slips through. You look it over and it appears to be very legitimate. You don’t remember clicking ‘Yes’ to subscribe to this newsletter, but you see the classic, “You are receiving this because you subscribed to one of our partners… blah, blah, blah… and this is an excuse for us to send you spam. Yeah, it’s true: XYZ company is one of our partners, we do their mass mailing and we grabbed your address at the same time!” So, now you’re tempted to click the Unsubscribe button, but how can you tell if it’s legit? And how do you know that clicking unsubscribe won’t tell the spammer, “Hey I’m alive and I actually read what you sent - send me more”? (Mar 17, 2010)
Unsubscribe me!
At some point you receive a newsletter that looks quite legit, but you don’t recall subscribing to it. While looking at the content, you can’t figure out if it’s spam or not. What do you do with it? Delete! (And block the sender too, if you can). (Nov 18, 2009)
Here’s a Quick Way to Stop Chain Letters
You’ve never heard of "white spam"? Of course not, I just made it up. Also called "friend spam," white spam is legitimate email that comes from annoying sources: a friend or relative (or both) who sends his daily home-made blog, details of adventures with his dog or multiple weekly chain letters. (Sep 21, 2009)
