I don’t know how the heck I got on the Reader’s mailing list - though it seems to coincide approximately with the time I recently re-subscribed here - but I have sent at least 3 emails to the “unsubscribe” address listed at the bottom of each of these emails.
Does anyone actually check that inbox???
Look Reader, I appreciate you hosting the Dope all these years, but I really don’t care for your recommendations. Even if I were interested, they are Chicago-specific, and thus useless to me unless I happen to be taking a trip your way, which ain’t likely considering I’m broke and swamped at the moment. If I do happen to visit the Windy City sometime in the not-too distant future, perhaps I’ll actively seek out your input, which you post so thoughtfully on your webpage. But stop sending this crap to my email address!!!
See Reader, there are other people out there who desire your love and affection, people more worthy of you then myself. Let’s just be friends… special friends… the kind that you can go months, even years without contacting, but you still always know that your friend is out there. Let’s take comfort (silently) in the fact that we have each other.
Incidentally, maybe it’s incorrect to characterize it as spam, since I probably unknowingly solicited it. Was there possibly some box to uncheck when resubscribing asking if I wanted to receive periodic “The Reader Recommends” emails? I’m usually pretty good at being aware of those.
The thing that pisses me off though is the difficulty in unsubscribing.
I think I’ve received exactly four emails from the Reader in the years I’ve been here. Two informing me it was time to renew (that’s one each year), and two more confirming my renewal (again, one each year).
Can you forward a copy of one of those mailings to me? TubaDiva@aol.com
I will personally make sure you are removed.
Are you also a member of the Joke-A-Day Straight Dope weekly mailing? I suspect that’s where they got the address, I don’t think they’re using SDMB email addresses.
To the best of my knowledge the only email generated to users through SDMB email addresses has been two mailings sent in the past two weeks reminding those Charter Members who have not resubscribed that time is fleeting. And even that one is only sent to Charter Members who indicated in their profiles they wished to receive emails from management.
OOh, now if I was a CLEVER person, I would go at once and make sure I have ticked the right bits in my profile. I’ve jsut resubscribed (fter trying to “remind myself” for a while" and of course, only doing it jsut in time. I should fix things now so as to get a reminder next year.
And more in l ine with the OP, coutn me as another one who has never had any trouble with unsolicited anything from the SDMB. Happy bunny!
Hmmm… I don’t remember ever going there, though I guess it’s possible I wandered over there during one of those… well, let’s just say one of those nights I’ll never get fully back (nod to fetus).
Incidentally, anyone else just check out the Reader homepage and on a quick scan beneath the SD link read one of the links as “Sausage Love”?
I meant to post this last night but apparently forgot to submit it
Well, I just checked my spam folder, which I usually check periodically but haven’t in a while for some reason, where I found:
I replied and got back a confirmation of the confirmation which, wait… crap, I just opened it and apparently it failed to remove me from the list because my request had expired.
I can handle it from here Tuba if you haven’t already.
Incidentally, is malicious removal from email subscriptions actually a problem??? And so much so that they need to specify a 3-day window before your request expires?*
*not addressed to anyone specifically. Just more of a lighthearted rhetorical comment on what seems kinda silly.
