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<blockquote data-quote="Elephant" data-source="post: 4855674" data-attributes="member: 17431"><p>Oh, well, since there's an 'unsubscribe' link, it's okay.</p><p></p><p>Not.</p><p></p><p>The point is, I should never have received the email in the first place -- if I wanted a newsletter subscription, I would have signed up for it from the ENWorld homepage.</p><p></p><p>As for labeling it "spam", it's an unwanted automated mass email. The fact that it's not hawking Viagra or diet pills is irrelevant.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I never got an announcement email. Either way, it wouldn't have mattered -- the announcement email didn't include an opt-out option, did it?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If I took the time to hunt for and click the unsubscribe link in every unwanted email that finds its way to my inbox, I'd never get anything else done!</p><p></p><p>Just because this particular newsletter email is not a <em>major</em> inconvenience doesn't excuse Morrus for inconveniencing me in the first place.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well-put. A newsletter can be a good thing...so long as you actually send it to the people who want it...and only the people who want it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>First - in principle, I should never have had to opt out. I should have been given an opportunity to opt-in (which, in my case, I would have forgone).</p><p>Second - you're underestimating the time it takes to deal with the newsletter. It's more like five seconds to start reading before going "What IS this ... stuff? I didn't sign up for a blinking newsletter!" Another five seconds to weigh searching the email vs. clicking "report spam", followed by 5-10 to search the email for an unsubscribe link (I'm a fast reader. Low-literacy readers would have to read the <em>entire email</em> in order to find the unsubscribe link. Count it as 2-3 minutes for them.), and finally another 5 seconds for checking the link and clicking.</p><p></p><p>Plus the bad feelings about it that led me to post here and spend over ten minutes engaged in this thread, of course.</p><p></p><p>As I said earlier, just because it's a "minor" inconvenience doesn't grant license to incur the inconvenience in the first place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elephant, post: 4855674, member: 17431"] Oh, well, since there's an 'unsubscribe' link, it's okay. Not. The point is, I should never have received the email in the first place -- if I wanted a newsletter subscription, I would have signed up for it from the ENWorld homepage. As for labeling it "spam", it's an unwanted automated mass email. The fact that it's not hawking Viagra or diet pills is irrelevant. I never got an announcement email. Either way, it wouldn't have mattered -- the announcement email didn't include an opt-out option, did it? If I took the time to hunt for and click the unsubscribe link in every unwanted email that finds its way to my inbox, I'd never get anything else done! Just because this particular newsletter email is not a [I]major[/I] inconvenience doesn't excuse Morrus for inconveniencing me in the first place. Well-put. A newsletter can be a good thing...so long as you actually send it to the people who want it...and only the people who want it. First - in principle, I should never have had to opt out. I should have been given an opportunity to opt-in (which, in my case, I would have forgone). Second - you're underestimating the time it takes to deal with the newsletter. It's more like five seconds to start reading before going "What IS this ... stuff? I didn't sign up for a blinking newsletter!" Another five seconds to weigh searching the email vs. clicking "report spam", followed by 5-10 to search the email for an unsubscribe link (I'm a fast reader. Low-literacy readers would have to read the [I]entire email[/I] in order to find the unsubscribe link. Count it as 2-3 minutes for them.), and finally another 5 seconds for checking the link and clicking. Plus the bad feelings about it that led me to post here and spend over ten minutes engaged in this thread, of course. As I said earlier, just because it's a "minor" inconvenience doesn't grant license to incur the inconvenience in the first place. [/QUOTE]
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