ENWorld Spamletter

[CapnZapp]

One point is also that it should be possible to unsubscribe without accessing the newsletter at all. (I've gotten the second newsletter, but possibly I didn't get to unchecking the box in time)

I too agree the "Allow admin emails" sounds nothing like "Allow weekly newsletters". It sounds much more like "Allow an admin to contact me in an emergency".

 

[Mark]

Things could be worse. I'm not planning on Gencon - I haven't gone since 2005.

Are you going?

I'll be going this year. Not as close as WI but still doable some years.

 

[Ashtagon]

As soon as I recognised it as an unsolicited email, the email went straight into my spambox, and any further emails from that address will be automatically sent their via filters too.

I appreciate that you sent a warning email. It should have contained an "opt-in" link, which I reasonably expected a sensible webmaster would have chosen to do. Apparently, it didn't even contain an "opt-out" link, judging from some other posts.

For reference, can you describe exactly how I can unsubscribe from this unsolicited email without accessing it?

 

[Morrus]

For reference, can you describe exactly how I can unsubscribe from this unsolicited email without accessing it?

See above.

1) Change your account option to say you do not want to receive emails from the admin.

or

2) Click on the "Newsletter" link on the front page of the site and use the unsubscribe option there.

or

3) Click on the unsubscribe link in the email itself.

 

[Blackrat]

Eh... How about enabling this "spam"letter? I'd really like to have it but apparently us Hotmail users are excluded from your club .

My options have the Receive Email from Admin set...

No it wasn't in the spam-folder...

Yes, I'm quite sure my email account is the right one in ENW settings.

 

[Dyson Logos]

No, it is not. It is a newsletter. I would expect from the context of the check box that it would be for things like "The board will be down" or even "OMG! We are out of money time for a pledge drive!". This was unsolicited. It really was not about the administrative function of the board but as a "Nudge, Nudge, hey! Pay attention" sort thing.

At no point does it say that the admin contacting you will be administrative.

It remains that the admin sending you an emailed newsletter remains by definition well within the scope of the admin contacting you via email.

 

[Dyson Logos]

Eh... How about enabling this "spam"letter? I'd really like to have it but apparently us Hotmail users are excluded from your club .

Complain to Microsoft, not to ENWorld. It's MS Hotmail that is blocking the email.

 

[Morrus]

Complain to Microsoft, not to ENWorld. It's MS Hotmail that is blocking the email.

And it's coming from a Hotmail address (I believe it's important that my own email address is the From address).

 

[Dyson Logos]

that's probably why it is being blocked by MS then. If the "from" line is a hotmail account, but it wasn't sent through the hotmail servers, they block it.

 

[Nifft]

Why do I get each letter twice?
Is it because of my alt?

Thanks, -- N