Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter - eviltoast
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  • meat_popsicle@kbin.social
    31·
    1 year ago

    I work in IT and hit Spam on everything I perceive as spam.

    Poison all the data and fuck spammers straight to hell, tyvm.

    • squiblet@kbin.social
      318·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen some people deal with newsletters they signed up for that way and it’s unarguably a misuse and abuse of the system. “I don’t want these messages any longer” is not the same as unsolicited or abusive mail. For instance I see a small chocolate company and a granola company in my spam folder in gmail. Do they “spam”? No, there’s a really huge difference between e-mail marketing and spam. It sounds like what you ‘perceive’ as spam is based on not really knowing what it is.

      Poison all the data

      Is that some juvenile badassery or something?

      fuck spammers straight to hell, tyvm.

      yes, fuck spammers but not small companies doing email marketing. Email marketing is the only effective way to grow a business online these days without paying some giant fuckstick corporation like Facebook, so I don’t believe what you stated is accomplishing what seems to be your goal. If you make email marketing unusable, that helps google sell ads.

      • BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Email marketing is the only effective way to grow a business online these days

        Sorry, but I call horse_shit_ on this. If the only way you can grow your business is to shovel your garbage into my personal inbox, then it’s spam, plain and simple.

        If I have to give you my e-mail address to order something and you default “sign up for more of my bullshit” to checked, then fuck you.

        • salton@reddthat.com
          7·
          1 year ago

          I see this as “Did I intend to get this email?” Then nothing happens. If I did not intent to receive it then it is spam because I never intentionally subscribe to any marketing emails.

      • some_guy@kbin.social
        82·
        1 year ago

        You’ve never done something and thought “oh hell this isn’t want I signed up for”?

        misuse and abuse

        🤣

        Do you, by chance, run a business that sends out mass email spam?

        • squiblet@kbin.social
          34·
          1 year ago

          No, I sure don’t. I don’t have anything to do with companies that do legitimate email marketing, either. But I am able to understand the difference.

          I’m not sure what the stupid emoji is supposed to mean, by the way.

      • Durotar@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        No, there’s a really huge difference between e-mail marketing and spam.

        From Wikipedia:

        Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising.

        So yeah, what you described is spam by definition.

        • squiblet@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          No, the difference i have noted is solicited vs unsolicited. If you sign up for something it is solicited as based on the definition of the word. Deciding you no longer wish to receive it is different than if you never signed up in the first place. Amazing how confused people are about this.