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Re: Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

Jake — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:47:43 -0000

I missed the Dilbert one. It's going to take time to change people's default behavior, but I hope soon that these spam storms will be dinosaurs.

Re: Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

AmiD — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:58:06 -0000

I was one of the spam victims as well. I am also not in sales, so I am not sure how I got on the dlist in the first place.

Email filters saved me. I stopped counting at 280 emails that ended up in my trash folder. This little spam-a-thon did inspire me to add a post to my connect group on how to use filters.

I also have high hopes that as more people become Connect savvy we will have fewer abuses of dlists, even though they do provide a little comic relief. I specifically liked the emailer who felt obligated to include a Dilbert cartoon in their reply.

Re: Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

Jake — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:06:33 -0000

Ha, good analogy. I especially enjoyed the paragraph of all caps and the ones about salary increases. Very clever stuff. Annoyance brings out the creativity in some people.

I agree that the remove mes were spurred by people new to the company, but after a couple, that excuse didn't wash. Good stuff all around, made the day go faster for me.

Re: Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

Jake — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:04:20 -0000

You reminded me. Another thing that set this eruption off from your average one is that people actually sent how to create a filter emails. Classic.

I agree there seems to be a gap about the mechanics of a mailing list, but I also think that due to acquisitions, a lot of people don't really know how to remove themselves. That excuse only worked after the first one or two "you have to remove yourself" emails

Re: Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

Chris — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:03:28 -0000

Yep. I endured it. I can only hope most of the people were "new" to the company? I think my total inbox tally for that (I set up a filter to a temp folder) came in around 350 messages. The funny thing here for me is I am not in sales, it was a sales list, but I assume I am on some list that is on some list that....

It kinda feels like people at a concert all standing up and yelling for everyone else to sit down.

Re: Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

ontarioemperor — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:00:14 -0000

We had a nasty one of those mailing list tempests erupt a little over a year ago. Since we were a remote office, our local IT staff implemented a filter to keep the offending mailing list messages out.

Part of this is a simple lack of understanding about the mechanics of mailing lists - anything that you send to the list is automatically sent to everyone on the list, even if it's a "please remove me from the list" message. One possible solution is to include unsubscribe information in the footer of every message sent by the list.

Re: Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

Jake — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:52:26 -0000

I wouldn't know :) I just lulz in the background. I have noticed that on FB too, and it's a bit weird. FB was supposed to kill email, but now it's a nice reflection of why email is dying anytime soon.

Re: Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

max — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:42:22 -0000

This is pretty common on facebook for me, i wish there was a way to unsubscribe from those email conversations entirely. But you know what, it's sort of fun to yell at a captive audience.