The Underscore Archives

				On 10/2/06, Thayer <thayer at chinwag.com> wrote:

> 1 - Would you be pissed off if you got emailled about a course, for a
> website you'd registered for?  If so, why would be helpful.
>

Yes, unless I'd been able to say plainly that I was interested in
hearing about courses in future.


> 2 - How often would you not mind hearing from a website you'd subscribed to,
> so long as you could unsubscribe at any time?  (weekly, monthly, anytime
> there's an offer, never..)
>

I'm perfectly happy to never hear from most sites again. The ones that
mail me least often are the ones I tend to return to for repeat
business.


> 3 - Would you be pissed off if you were put on a mailing list automatically
> by joining the site, even if there was a very clear unsubscribe link?  I
> mean, I would, but only if it was irrelavant content.  I'm aware it's really
> bad form though.  Or would it be fine?

That would be spam, then. I'd tag the message spam, and probably be
too concerned about generating more spam to use the unsub (because I
wouldn't trust it). So the messages would keep coming forever more,
and being sent straight to the Spam folder in the sky.

I'd be dead annoyed about it too, if it was some site I'd signed up
for in the mistaken belief that they had a Clue and *knew* it was
really bad form.

G