Comments on: One Little Mistake that Increases Spam for You and Other People http://persistenceunlimited.com/2006/07/one-little-mistake-that-increases-spam-for-you-and-other-people/ Goal Setting and Productivity for People Who Like Technology Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:17:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Andrew Seltz http://persistenceunlimited.com/2006/07/one-little-mistake-that-increases-spam-for-you-and-other-people/comment-page-1/#comment-992 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:44:57 +0000 http://persistenceunlimited.com/?p=512#comment-992 It’s another example of the age old tension between absolute freedom and tyranny.

With no regulation, bad people can destroy good things and the same thing happens with too much regulation.

Four years ago I started a newsletter for a website I work on and the amount of effort required to comply with legal regulations and stay on the right site of ISP filters has gone up tremendously.

Fortunately I get paid to keep making it work – for now anyway!

]]> By: Brad Isaac http://persistenceunlimited.com/2006/07/one-little-mistake-that-increases-spam-for-you-and-other-people/comment-page-1/#comment-991 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:25:31 +0000 http://persistenceunlimited.com/?p=512#comment-991 LOL. I guess we aren’t alone, huh? It’s almost like.

“As a special thank you for providing the service I just paid for, I am going to mark your confirmation as spam…that will teach you!”

]]> By: Bison http://persistenceunlimited.com/2006/07/one-little-mistake-that-increases-spam-for-you-and-other-people/comment-page-1/#comment-990 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:20:18 +0000 http://persistenceunlimited.com/?p=512#comment-990 I worked for an ISP recently. I saw the same problems.

I still haven’t decided which false-alarm from AOL was more amusing: MLS listings from user’s real estate agent, or the welcome letter from a service the user just signed up for. Stupid, stupid AOL users.

]]> By: Brad Isaac http://persistenceunlimited.com/2006/07/one-little-mistake-that-increases-spam-for-you-and-other-people/comment-page-1/#comment-989 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:51:46 +0000 http://persistenceunlimited.com/?p=512#comment-989 Silvia,

I am glad you chose this as the one you bookmarked. There is no plans to stop the newsletter because it still gets through all of the channels as far as I know.

I wrote this piece as a warning to what could happen. As you can see in Ricky’s post above, 100,000 or so people lost content they wanted because of the actions of just a very small percentage who didn’t understand how to be a good community member.

We adhere to the good subscription standards by including with every newsletter:

1. a 1-click unsubscribe link,
2. our business address
3. a working email address

you can use any of the three methods to unsubscribe. Of course just clicking the link does the trick for most people who can view html links in their emails.

The newsletter publishers who don’t include at least 2 of those three options are “asking for it.”

]]> By: Silvia http://persistenceunlimited.com/2006/07/one-little-mistake-that-increases-spam-for-you-and-other-people/comment-page-1/#comment-988 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:25:10 +0000 http://persistenceunlimited.com/?p=512#comment-988 When people do not provide an easy way for others to unsubscribe to their posts, they also colaborate to ruin the good work of others. I would be glad to do the right thing but nothing worked. I tried many times to unsubscribe to a newsletter, opened several times their page, wrote to them, nothing worked.
Silvia

]]> By: Silvia http://persistenceunlimited.com/2006/07/one-little-mistake-that-increases-spam-for-you-and-other-people/comment-page-1/#comment-987 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:17:12 +0000 http://persistenceunlimited.com/?p=512#comment-987 I will be sad if you stop your writings. I choosed them to be among the few readings on the web I am relying to in order to improve.
I was collecting too many blogs to read. I decided to choose only one and yours is my favorite in goal setting area.
Thanks a lot,
Silvia

]]> By: Ricky Spears http://persistenceunlimited.com/2006/07/one-little-mistake-that-increases-spam-for-you-and-other-people/comment-page-1/#comment-986 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:32:23 +0000 http://persistenceunlimited.com/?p=512#comment-986 Thanks for finally letting the world know about this, Brad. In one of my businesses, we have over 100,000 people that have signed up for our email newsletter. I’ve now quit sending the newsletter because of the number of AOL users that flagged it as spam instead of simply unsubscribing. This is on a double opt-in list like your own. The few have ruined it for the masses. I hope your post catches the attention of at least a few of them.

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