Add this to the list of crappy unsubscribes that probably don’t meet the law and certainly don’t meet acceptable standards. This one is from “machtech.com,” which is silly to assume I’ve ever signed up for because I’m not a Mac user. This is crappy advertising trying to escape CANSPAM law.
As for Neil Ticktin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, clean up your act and no, I will not be visiting you at Macworld next week. But thanks ever so much for the invitation. And congrats, you’ve been reported as a spammer.
Here’s the crappy unsubscribe (which should be Web-based and automated) and what’s worse for Mac publicity, the code underneath it shows it was composed in Microsoft Word.
You are receiving this e-mail because you have inquired about MacTech, MacMinute or another product/service from Xplain Corporation [No, sorry, I never did that; you're a liar]. Per our policy, this indicated a preference to receive product news, updates, and special offers from MacTech and selected partners of MacTech. [Your policy may be against the law.] If you do not wish to receive e-mails in the future about our partners, simply reply to this message with “remove” in the subject or body, [um no, that's the oldest spam trick in the book] and we’ll mark your account to avoid future mailings for partners of MacTech.
Update: fixed spelling of the domain name, h/t to DM.
You sure you don’t mean mactech.com? machtech.com is registered in Taiwan somewhere and not even about mac stuff. From the above, unless it’s a typo or you reported the wrong person.
I fixed the spelling of the domain name in the post. I have a graphic of the original spam if you would like a copy.
Yeah. That definitely would piss me off if people register you up for email lists that you didn’t ask for. I seem to remember reading about MacMinute being decent. In any case, the remove thing is stupid although it could be that they use mailman or something like that too. Hate junk like that. You should blot out the emails in the to: column and post the graphic. Nothing like a little tarring and feathering.
My personal e-mail address has been on a list for Richard Burr news releases, which do not have an unsubscribe link on them. So I hit “reply” to unsubscribe and got a very courteous personal response from David Ward in the senator’s office, telling me I’d be unsubscribed.
That’s not the kind of spam story you hear very often, so I thought I’d share.
Lex, thanks for sharing!
Although it would have been more fun if they added you to new email lists instead of being both polite and efficient, you gotta give credit where it’s due. Kudos to Sen. Burr’s office. But wouldn’t it be easier to automate that and use some of those new-fangled tools? Honestly, we can’t trust email unsubscribes like the one you used so many people will simply refuse to use them.
Well, the senator only recently started blogging, so I guess that office is not as up-to-speed on gadgets as some of us. Still, if they respond to everyone the way they responded to me, I have no complaints.