Re: Question: removing a member for spam?
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Duane wrote: It wasn't the email provider that unsubscribed them, it was GIO.? The providers return spam reports to GIO and it's up to them what to do.? GIO has decided that to preserve the reputation of the site, they'll unsubscribe those people.? All services should be doing this.? I believe the latest "rules" for email say that not honoring this and continuing to send emails is grounds for blacklisting the entire site/service.? In the early days, GIO was blacklisted by several services until Mark got everything straightened out and developed the unsubscribe system.
D
That's happened to me? two or three times. There is so much activity due to the Yahoo shutdown that even though I've not marked anything as Spam my provider (one of the AT&T domains managed by Yahoo) starts sending spam notices to GIO. GIO unsubscribes me and sends an email with a notice. I click the link and am instantly resubscribed.
The question, however, is what triggered AT&T/Yahoo to send the notice to GIO. It wasn't me. It was either some algorithm or (my guess) some ignorant user that was marking everything as spam instead of simply clicking unsubscribe.
This misguided action dates back to the 1990s when email spam became a problem. The conventional wisdom then was "Never click an Unsubscribe link. It just lets the spammers know they've hit a valid email address and you will get more spam." This doesn't take into account the side effects of newer anti-spam messages like the ones we're discussing. Sadly, mass user re-education is impossible.
Larry
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Laurence Marks