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On Friday 10 September 2004 01:53 pm, John Keown wrote:
There are too many to handle. The point is that the primary adopters are
domains and people who think users want these email specials.
Staples, Overstock.com, Sears, Online shopping BVM, anti-wrinkle.com,
PlasticJOBS.com and on and on. Just one merchant after another.
90% is commercial email and what I call and most customers call spam.
PS this includes amazon.com
There aren't too many for a community to handle. Organize a group of people
and go through the merchants one by one and work it out until you have
blocked all the bad guys. Write a program that will do it automatically, or
report the worst abusers.
As far as your concern for Amazon mail, if it's spam to you, it's spam. If
you don't want it, don't accept it. Our system will see the message getting
blocked and mark your email account as "don't send email". This may not
help when you want to get an order confirmation, but we are thinking of
splitting the domains out so you can safely block "massmail.amazon.com" and
not "orders.amazon.com", and certainly not "employees.amazon.com" like
myself.
I would appreciate it if you send me examples of the spam you are receiving
from Amazon, so I can look into why we are sending it to you erringly.
I personally would rather have Amazon mail go only into the inboxes of those
who want it, and everyone else who won't read it just don't accept it so we
know you don't want it.
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Jonathan M. Gardner
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