[DriveThru] DTRPG just sent me SPAM.

[Derulbaskul]

That's not spam.

If you don't like Drivethru then don't shop there. Don't spend your first month on these boards posting insults about a new business.

 

[Grazzt]

I signed up with them the first day they announced and have never receieved any spam or notifications from them.

Same here. And I downloaded the Exalted book too.

 

[johnsemlak]

Spamless here as well.

Is it just me or is a trend forming here?

 

[Grazzt]

As a general rule, spam refers to "bulk email sent out to no-one in particular without regard to any prior business relationship". Mail from a company with which you've done business and which is directly related to the business you've done with them, isn't spam.

Spam does not mean "any email I didn't want to get". Nor does it mean "any commercial email".

Yeah- exactly. The email you got wasn't spam dude.

 

[Grazzt]

That's not spam.

If you don't like Drivethru then don't shop there. Don't spend your first month on these boards posting insults about a new business.

Agreed. Sounds like a plan to me. Funk- you've been railing on DTRPG since this started...if you don't like 'em, as Derul- said, just don't shop there. It's easy dude.

 

[EldonG]

...I actually kinda appreciated being given a free copy of BESM...it's a pretty decent game...

 

[dsfriii]

Sigh

There will always be a small group that will always slam DTRPG even if they gave away everything for free....

 

[Grazzt]

There will always be a small group that will always slam DTRPG even if they gave away everything for free....

S'allright. Look at WotC, White Wolf, Green Ronin, hell..look outside the gaming industry at Microsoft, Linux (pick your distro), Porcshe, Nissan, Coke, Pepsi...whatever. No company/product/person makes everyone happy. Its just the way it is (and its probably sorta a good thing anyway...it means peeps are thinking for themselves, making up their own minds, and not doing what everyone is doing).

 

[Arnwyn]

1) I don't recall an "email notifications" setting when I signed up. It may have been there, but unnoticable.

Then you weren't paying attention. Sounds like you're either new to the internet or new to e-commerce.

2) Shouldn't this information be in the email itself.

No, it does not have to be.

3) Shouldn't there be a way to do this without having to login to the DriveThru site? A simple "unsubscribe" reply?

No, there does not have to be.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Trying not to defend Funksaw too much but if his message was authentic then DTRPG does seem to be sending out not only SPAM but illegal SPAM.

http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/108s877.html

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
(2) Commercial electronic mail message-

(A) IN GENERAL- The term `commercial electronic mail message' means any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service (including content on an Internet website operated for a commercial purpose).


SEC. 5. OTHER PROTECTIONS FOR USERS OF COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL.
(a) REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES-

(5) INCLUSION OF IDENTIFIER, OPT-OUT, AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS IN COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL- (A) It is unlawful for any person to initiate the transmission of any commercial electronic mail message to a protected computer unless the message provides--

(i) clear and conspicuous identification that the message is an advertisement or solicitation;

(ii) clear and conspicuous notice of the opportunity under paragraph (3) to decline to receive further commercial electronic mail messages from the sender; and

(iii) a valid physical postal address of the sender.

(B) Subparagraph (A)(i) does not apply to the transmission of a commercial electronic mail message if the recipient has given prior affirmative consent to receipt of the message.

Whether or not this is a newsletter that was requested (or failed to unrequest) the CAN-SPAM act requires that an unsubcribe option be included.

Edit: Fixed quotes