I have prepared a form letter which I send out to any company advertised in spam sent to me for which I can find a contact email address likely to be read by a human. Feel free to modify and use yourself. Comments welcome.
Adam ------- Thank you for your attention. I received your contact information in an unsolicited broadcast email. I will never purchase any item advertised this way. The sender of the email claimed I had signed up for his opt-in service. I have never signed up for any broadcast email service. My primary goal is to stop all unsolicited broadcast emails to the ideogram.com domain (I own this domain and all email addresses in it). I cannot use the supplied unsubscribe link in the email I received because: (1) The sender of the email has already lied to me once. (2) I do not have any way to verify the sender's compliance. (3) Bulk emailers in general have a bad reputation and everyone says using the supplied unsubscribe link simply gets you more email. (4) I wish to stop all present and future unsolicited broadcast emails to the ideogram.com domain, not just the address used for that email. I cannot establish contact or trust with the sender of the email because only you know who he really is. I understand your time is valuable and I would not take it if there was any other way. But yours is the only contact information I trust. (1) Let me ask you not to send any more solicitations to the ideogram.com domain. This will save you time since I will no longer have to contact you. (2) If the bulk emailer told you he was using an opt-in list, he lied. (3) Some bulk emailers have contracts that pay according to the number of emails sent. If your contract is worded this way, then the bulk emailer makes more money sending your email to me and others like me even though we will never buy anything. I have the email and can forward it to you (minus information identifying the recipient) if you need it to identify which bulk emailer sent it. But I will only give it to you if you can help me. I need a way to verify compliance. I am not sure how to do this; perhaps there is some information tied to the bulk emailer which is difficult to change that his other clients would also have access to, such as the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth digits of his taxpayer ID number. I do not need anything that would allow me to contact or harass him, just something that would point to him if he sent me email on behalf of another client. Without this kind of verification his assurances that he has removed me from his list are worthless. I hope you agree that preventing him from sending email to me on behalf of his other clients will benefit those clients. Finally, I do not know how you evaluate bulk emailer services, but it seems to me that a system that allows me to verify his compliance would also allow you and other clients to share feedback on his performance, similar to the eBay ratings. If you are interested in discussing these issues, I am willing to set up a mailing list. It would be open to all interested parties and participants could remain anonymous. Whether you trust it would depend on whether you trust me. I am sorry this turned out to be so long. Thank you very much for your time. Adam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
