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  • squiblet
    -15•1 year ago

    I’ve seen some people deal with newsletters they signed up for that way and it’s unarguably a misuse and abuse of the system. “I don’t want these messages any longer” is not the same as unsolicited or abusive mail. For instance I see a small chocolate company and a granola company in my spam folder in gmail. Do they “spam”? No, there’s a really huge difference between e-mail marketing and spam. It sounds like what you ‘perceive’ as spam is based on not really knowing what it is.

    Poison all the data

    Is that some juvenile badassery or something?

    fuck spammers straight to hell, tyvm.

    yes, fuck spammers but not small companies doing email marketing. Email marketing is the only effective way to grow a business online these days without paying some giant fuckstick corporation like Facebook, so I don’t believe what you stated is accomplishing what seems to be your goal. If you make email marketing unusable, that helps google sell ads.

    • @BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
      22•1 year ago

      Email marketing is the only effective way to grow a business online these days

      Sorry, but I call horse_shit_ on this. If the only way you can grow your business is to shovel your garbage into my personal inbox, then it’s spam, plain and simple.

      If I have to give you my e-mail address to order something and you default “sign up for more of my bullshit” to checked, then fuck you.

      • @salton@reddthat.com
        7•1 year ago

        I see this as “Did I intend to get this email?” Then nothing happens. If I did not intent to receive it then it is spam because I never intentionally subscribe to any marketing emails.

    • some_guy
      6•1 year ago

      You’ve never done something and thought “oh hell this isn’t want I signed up for”?

      misuse and abuse

      🤣

      Do you, by chance, run a business that sends out mass email spam?

      • squiblet
        -1•1 year ago

        No, I sure don’t. I don’t have anything to do with companies that do legitimate email marketing, either. But I am able to understand the difference.

        I’m not sure what the stupid emoji is supposed to mean, by the way.

          • squiblet
            0•1 year ago

            So you’re someone who doesn’t understand the difference between newsletters and spam, and uses stupid emoji to make your points?

              • squiblet
                1•1 year ago

                no, it was actually a way of informing you that you seem to be immature and not interacting with people in a productive way.

    • @Durotar@lemmy.ml
      3•1 year ago

      No, there’s a really huge difference between e-mail marketing and spam.

      From Wikipedia:

      Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising.

      So yeah, what you described is spam by definition.

      • squiblet
        1•1 year ago

        No, the difference i have noted is solicited vs unsolicited. If you sign up for something it is solicited as based on the definition of the word. Deciding you no longer wish to receive it is different than if you never signed up in the first place. Amazing how confused people are about this.