Tag: opt-out

Don’t opt-out of spam?

  Yesterday, [acp author=”Laura Atkins” media=”blog” title=”Don’t unsubscribe from spam!!” id=”Atkins-01″ url=”http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2013/11/dont-unsubscribe-from-spam/” month=”November” day=”18″ year=”2013″]{author}[/acp] wrote a blog post which suggests that unsubscribing from spam doesn’t result in receiving more spam. I know that this is a project that she’s been working on for at least a month, and I don’t have any reason to doubt Read More

Why an opt-out opt-in doesn’t really work

I recently heard from some friends about Penton Media sending an email asking people to subscribe to get third-party email.  They didn’t like being required to opt-out to avoid getting email that wasn’t requested in the first place, even if there had been a warning given that the email was coming. Apparently, Spamhaus agreed with Read More