The issues I have with email have been kind of alluded to by you guys, and that is basically this: We're getting bombarded with emails from companies that we *did* sign up for email from, but did *not* expect to be *constantly contacted* </jab> by. An update once in a while about a new product or promotion is acceptable, but when I get 3-5 "webinar" invites from the same company every week, it's disruptive, and I end up unsubscribing from their lists. I think something is wrong with a company that, for example, sends many many emails to me per day trying to sell me their anti-spam solution! Though, it's technically not spam, since apparently at some point I did sign up for it, it has the same annoyance level.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Keith Stokes <[email protected]> wrote: > If I get 4 or 5 spam out of a couple hundred messages per day I don't > consider it a problem. It's not like they are hard to spot and take more > than about 1 second each to delete. I waste at least 10x more on useless > e-mails from coworkers. > > On Jun 4, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > Haha, no, he’s not weird, but I take it he’s gone a little jaded. I have to > admit I struggle with spam a bit myself. I delete about 4-5 emails a day > that are spam that get past our filter. > > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]> > ] *On Behalf Of *mat branyon > *Sent:* Friday, June 04, 2010 9:44 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Has spam killed the Internet? > > > negative. email seems to be working for me. > from my phone even. > > maybe you keep weird friends > > On Jun 4, 2010 8:34 AM, "Dustin Puryear" <[email protected]> wrote: > A philosophical question.. > > I recently sent someone I know an email about catching up and got busy > afterwards and so didn’t respond very promptly, and then got the following: > > … > Automated form touch letters. Nice, Dustin. > > I'm spam listing your domain to this address. > > You can contact me via another technology, if you actually want to > interact. > … > > It took me a few days to get what he meant, and now that I do I wonder if > spam has really made Internet users this jaded? More broadly put, has spam > really killed email? > > --- > Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ > Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On > Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies > > Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -- > > Keith Stokes > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
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