By saying this, they are indirectly reliveing therselves from any legal obligations regarding spam. Spam has always been uncsolicited email that we were never interested in, but all at times when you give your email out and they send you to a subscriber list. there are a few ways to take yourself off these lists but sometimes still doesnt work.
When surveys were taken, here is how people responded about spam:
Return Path asked 1,695 consumers "How do you typically act when you no longer want to receive email from a company?"
Epsilon surveyed 119 individuals who had used the "report spam" button:
65% equated it with unsubscribing from a sender's emails.
Silverpop asked 400 consumers what they thought spam meant in relation to email:
- 40% said "email I don't want to receive."
- 35% said "email from any commercial entity"
Whenever I start receiving mail that I no longer want, I make sure that if there is an "unsubscribe" button that I unsubscribe first before clicking spam on the content. The only time I use the spam button is when it is for something specific that I never asked to receive. Sometimes people forget that they actually signed up to receive emails from that certain entity and report it as spam when they should have just unsubscribed!
ReplyDeleteI always look for an unsubscribe button. I rarely if ever mark any of my emails as spam. I agree with the post above a lot of people forget what they sign up for. I worked at a petstore and we always had to ask if people wanted to sign up for our emails and 7 times out of 10 I would say they looked at me and said "honey I don't even check my email anymore". I feel like spam and peoples in ability to deal with it is making the internet and especially email a more difficult way to market.
ReplyDeleteWe would have to agree. It is important to look for an unsubscribe button, and people need to gain a better awareness of what exactly spam is. It is not a great idea to rely on the spam filter itself, yet it does provide a basic filter to users who have no previous knowledge of the Internet.
ReplyDelete@catiebishop yea i I think most people forget about subscribing in emails, and it seems that most companies take advantage of your emails. I think they should post the option to unsubscribe more often. However it is still up to the users responsibility to what you subscribe to
ReplyDeleteI try not to even sign up with companies that I know I will never buy from again. Another idea is to set up a fake or secondary email address with the thought of spam in mind. Though generally emails sent to me from a commercial entity are usually spam, there are very good deals to be had from signing up with companies.
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ReplyDeleteyou have that option but for some people it is a annoyance to sign up for another email address and then go check it for deals etc. then you have the whole opt in opt out deal where for a website which provides a service you have to opt into their demands to get the proper benefits. lots of times commercial entities send emails for fliers and deals which you may at times find annoying and at others find very beneficial.
I've been getting spam on a brand new gmail account. I opened the account to avoid spam but I continue to receive mail that I know I have not signed up for. It is very annoying to have to delete all of the spam or send them a message that you no longer want emails from them. Either way I don't know many people that even open their spam email, so what are they really getting out of it?
ReplyDeleteSpam is a huge annoyance, one of my only suggestions is having a "junk e-mail account" this is a e-mail account you make with the sole purpose of SPAM or unwanted e-mails. I use multiple emails and sometimes it helps having one attached to a social network for all those "noties" and "requests" but while this does free up the majority of it spam still appears in my other mailboxes, its like the gift that keeps on giving....
ReplyDeletePosted by JonEric Roman