John Hardin wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Johnson, S wrote:
When I put in the email address of the user that was being sent these
survey offers for gift cards I got a message stating please allow 10
days for removal which makes me think they are not legit.
That's not necessarily the case. One legitimate reason for claiming a
delay like that is if a marketing promotion is already underway
materials may already be in the pipeline.
Granted, that's more true of physical mail than email, but the
procedures in place for electronic marketing may have the same latency.
It doesn't automatically mean they're lying about unsubscribing you as
quickly as they practically can.
However, I agree it's annoying.
But it's so easy to check if they are lying. Just setup a fake
e-mail address that feeds right into your Bays filter for spam,
then after keying in the user's e-mail address that you want to
unsubscribe, submit your feeder address for "unsubscribing"
If they are a bona-fied spammer when they see the virgin
(to their database) feeder address punched into their unsubscribe
link, they will immediately start spamming it.
Ted
