ENWorld Spamletter

[Elephant]

I was very disturbed to see

EN World D&D/RPG Newsletter #1

arrive in my email box yesterday. I never subscribed to an ENWorld newsletter. I never wanted to be subscribed to an ENWorld newsletter.

Simply blasting it out to all user accounts rather than putting up a note about it so people could subscribe?

Very bad form. Boo, Morrus. Boo.

 

[CapnZapp]

I am suspicious.

There are no news about this newsletter. I can't find any new subscribe/unsub setting in my options.

And of course, for it to be real, ENWorld need to have decided to spam us.

So is this real, or is it just a hoax/virus/spam attempt?

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I am suspicious.

There are no news about this newsletter. I can't find any new subscribe/unsub setting in my options.

And of course, for it to be real, ENWorld need to have decided to spam us.

So is this real, or is it just a hoax/virus/spam attempt?

If you look at the bottom of the newsletter there is an option to unsubscribe.

Other than that, as far as I can see it's entirely real and simply repeats a list of the most recent news stories and some of the more popular forum threads.

I hardly think that one newsletter is enough to decry Morrus for "spamming" you - if he'd sent four or five in the same day, maybe.

 

[Knight Otu]

I got two copies (probably for my two accounts), which did land in my spam folder. However, I also received a different email back on March 24th, which did announce that the newsletter would come:

Dear Knight Otu,

Starting soon, EN World will be sending out a weekly newsletter. This newsletter will contain the latest D&D and RPG news, delivered straight to your inbox.

We appreciate that not everyone will want to receive this newsletter, which is why we're sending out this courtesy email in advance. You can easily choose not to receive the newsletter by switching it off in your member account control panel:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/profile.php?do=editoptions

You know, I was wondering about whether it would actually happen after several months of silence.

 

[EricNoah]

It's real, I chatted with Russ about it on Facebook. One thing I did learn is that the "no newsletter" setting deep in the Options in your user account is referring to an older attempt at a newsletter and doesn't affect whether you get this one or not; so you should use the unsubscribe link on the newsletter itself.

 

[Dyson Logos]

I like it. Most of the time I just log straight into the forums without reading the news page. This gives me a nice news update on a weekly basis.

Keep it up!

 

[fba827]

hm. i didn't get one (hotmail account), though admitedly i might unsubscribe from it if i did since i come here regularly enough to see the same news, so i'm not complaining either way. But, curious none the less!

(yes, checked my spam folder and everything) so maybe i somehow preemptively turned it off without realizing it because *all* my settings that give me a choice for email notification (such as subscribed threads and what not) are set to 'no email' when given that option.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

hm. i didn't get one (hotmail account), though admitedly i might unsubscribe from it if i did since i come here regularly enough to see the same news, so i'm not complaining either way. But, curious none the less!

They were going out in stages, but I thought they had all gone out by now. Otherwise, what Eric said - it's legit, and if you don't want to receive it hit the unsubscribe link...

 

[Umbran]

I was very disturbed to see

EN World D&D/RPG Newsletter #1

We're sorry you find it disturbing. Since you had registered at the site, it seemed reasonable to guess that things going on at the site would be of interest to you. There's an unsubscribe option in the newsletter, and will be one in all following newsletters.

 

[LightPhoenix]

hm. i didn't get one (hotmail account), though admitedly i might unsubscribe from it if i did since i come here regularly enough to see the same news, so i'm not complaining either way. But, curious none the less!

(yes, checked my spam folder and everything) so maybe i somehow preemptively turned it off without realizing it because *all* my settings that give me a choice for email notification (such as subscribed threads and what not) are set to 'no email' when given that option.

My account is also linked to a hotmail account and I also haven't received it.