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CAN-SPAM has worked well in that I generally don't get random spam anymore. But, the cold marketing emails. Woooooow, the cold marketing emails. Several of them, Every. Day. It's epidemic in my inbox.
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I gave up and accept this as the normal standard. I just delete it and move on. Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. Better luck putting my self on the moon.
Inbox 0 really triggers me. Simply put, if you are unable to get to 0 (work related), then you need to take on less. I run a business and get less than 10 emails per day, what is everyone doing that is filling up their inboxes so much?
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Inbox 0 really triggers me. Simply put, if you are unable to get to 0 (work related), then you need to take on less. I run a business and get less than 10 emails per day, what is everyone doing that is filling up their inboxes so much?
I have literally 10 emails just from my own Google Calendar reminding me to do things, 6 from HN replies, some from GitHub, some reminders for financial statements, and lots of miscellaneous notifications and mailing list emails... how in the world do you only get 10 emails per day when running a business?
In B2B the rules are bit different at least with GDPR. Direct sales / marketing via email is possible without any consent or previous relationship. It has to be targeted to the right person in the company (the person who makes decisions about buying whatever you're selling).
Shouldn't this mention the CCPA? And the EU more broadly than just Germany and the UK?
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Couldn't agree with you more. I get marketing SMS with pictures from my network provider about the new iPhone etc. Its terrible.
I gave up and accept this as the normal standard. I just delete it and move on. Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. Better luck putting my self on the moon.
Stupid marketing emails are the easiest to deal with - the entire required procedure is to archive them.
Emails that are complex and require a lot more though, have multiple decisions and/or holders of stakes involved are currently the bane of my existence.
Email spam has went down mostly from self regulation. ISPs are vigilant about blocking IP addresses with bad spam reputation. They also block IPs that have a sudden surge in volume. Email marketers have to manage their own IP address reputations to be effective. If too many people mark your email as spam, then the IP could be blacklisted.
I just hope gmail had an auto unsubscribe. Most of the time unsubscribe doesn’t work since sites require humans to click some button or entire their email again.
I am far more worried about real mail spam. Can I do something about that ?
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I gave up and accept this as the normal standard. I just delete it and move on. Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. Better luck putting my self on the moon.
>Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. As someone who has never had any trouble maintaining inbox 0 I have to ask, why?
You can basically do what ever you want want with minimal if any repisal It takes 7 business days to get removed. My ass. It's an instant transaction or the company is incredibly incompetent.
The only reasonable explanation for this I've seen is that some of these companies are sending 10s or 100s of thousands of marketing emails, so they use large queuing systems. Sometimes these batch jobs are queued up and fired off some time in advance. 7 days give them a window to cover this queue length. Sure they could add a 'blacklist' check on the send action level, though.
I'm sick of email spam. It doesn't take 7 days. It's a simple database update. "do not send to this person". Done. Its a dark pattern and should be punished.
I have suggested against shitty companies that spam people like. They lost a year contract. 7 days my ass. If you can't get your database working I'd be happy to help.