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Idiots and newsletters
Got an unsubscribe request from one a subscriber. The person had the audacity to say I spammed them. That just ticks me off.
There are so many people out there that don't pay attention to what they're signing up for online. Whenever I sign up for anything, I double check the newsletter signup. How did this idiot get subscribed? I'll tell ye.
A couple years ago, I started collecting email addresses for my mailing list. To make it easier, I added sign up forms on every webpage I own. You could sign up to any of my newsletters from any webpage. I would then go in and add people to each newsletter.
I really don't know what some people were thinking though. I found early on that people would sign up for every one of my newsletters whether they wanted them or not. They just clicked the "subscribe all" link and voila.
Eventually I realized that some of this idiots were just weren't paying attention. They just wanted, say, my Celtic MP3s Music Magazine for free MP3s, but didn't care about the other stuff. So sure, my zine numbers blossomed, but the quality went down the tube.
That's why a year ago or so, I switched all my newsletters to Topica. They have a nice "confirm your subscription" email so if you're too stupid to sign up for everything, you might figure it out and sign up for nothing or at least just the one thing you want.
And you wonder why there is so much spam out there?!
NPR had an interesting report last week where they did some interviews about who was actually responding to spam.
I mean, if no one responded to spam, it would stop coming because it would NOT be financially profitable, right?
But lo and behold some teenager is out there making a fortune off of penile enlargements that he's not even selling... just taking money from $uckers.
The point is, don't be an idiot. Don't sign up for things you don't want. Double check mailing list sign up forms. Otherwise, you could hurt some legitimate business that does not want to spam anyone.
Posted by Marc Gunn on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
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