We all acknowledge that we receive way too much unsolicited emails from unknown resources. I get too many emails from people I sign up to receive their mail. But if I join an organization as a MEMBER, free or paid, is it really spam if correspondence comes from them? Really?
Please think with the Golden Rule in mind. If you have signed up on a site and receive too much mail from them, ask the site source to tone it down or remove you from those lists. Don't fly off the handle and report them as spam. Do you realize how much that can impact a legitimate and honorable organization?
Example: An organization I belong to sent out a special emailing to all members.
This was not the opt in newsletter, opt in blog - but a legitimate announcement for members to allow them to nominate people for an award at no cost - just to recognize people in the field.
Only members of the organization received the email.
Membership is free, people have to sign themselves up.
They add no one from any lists - it is only from visitors through the site.
One person reported this membership announcement email as spam to the hosting company.
This hosting company is VIGILANT to monitor spam reports, because they know too many spam reports will get their IP's banned from Google and all major search engines.
See how this is going?
See how we are ALL connected, as are our over-reactions to minor items?
If you don't want mail from someone you signed up with, request unsubscribe. Don't be a big baby and TATTLE on them. Just ask them to remove you. If it's something nastier like Classmates.com - it will take a while, but they do respect it.
You can create a rule to block the email from that source.
You can use the always-powerful DELETE button.
Think how you would feel if you spent time marketing a site, building your good name, good brand and composing thoughtful newsletters to go out to those who have said they were interested in your brand and message through your own site. How would you feel if one of THEM reported you as a spammer and got you banned from your hosting company, email servers, search engines? What an expensive MESS!
When you complain online, take responsibility for your own reactions, actions and OVER-reactions.
Can you just unsubscribe? Then do it.
Can you delete? Then do it.
Don't be a tattle tale, whiner baby. Good gosh. It's email. Buck up. If it's really spam - offers for Viagra and the like, OK - tattle away. But if you know the company, have had dealings with them, give them the benefit of the doubt and be a grown up by simply asking them to remove you from their lists. Wouldn't you want them to do that for you?
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