Sending me an email to confirm I just unsubscribed.

14 years ago

Maybe so you have "proof" that you requested an unsubscribe? I would file it away somewhere so if you do keep getting emails you can show your successful unsubscribe. (Not that some of them would care, but still.

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Ashley Gable

14 years ago

Yeah I have had a couple of those myself! I dont know why they do it.

I also dont like the unsubscribe method where I have to type in my email to get off the list, I dont know why though, its not that much harder to type it.

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krharper

14 years ago

Does seem awfully ironic, doesn't it.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Marty S

Then when I think I am free and clear...

I get a new email confirmation that I unsubscribed!!!!!

It's that last step that is bothersome. Why the double confirm that I unsubscribed, and why send me another email when I just said I don't want any more from you??

Maybe it's error prevention.

Imagine that you didn't want to unsubscribe. For whatever reason, something went wrong somehow and you got unsubscribed instead of someone else. Without a confirmation message, you would never know you had been accidentally unsubscribed. You'd just stop receiving messages.

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Paul Myers

14 years ago

Maybe it's error prevention.

Imagine that you didn't want to unsubscribe. For whatever reason, something went wrong somehow and you got unsubscribed instead of someone else. Without a confirmation message, you would never know you had been accidentally unsubscribed. You'd just stop receiving messages.

Yup.

This started back in the days when mailing list managers did not have web interfaces. You subscribed and unsubscribed using commands sent via email. It was considered proper form to send these notices, as confirmation that the request had worked. (People often screwed up the commands, and would become angry if the request failed and they didn't know it was an error on their part.)

Another reason was the tendency on some lists for people who got into arguments to unsubscribe the folks who dared disagree with them. The confirmation served as a warning that someone had forged an unsubscribe.

It's largely unnecessary for web systems with unique tokens, but it's still not unusual.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

(People often screwed up the commands, and would become angry if the request failed and they didn't know it was an error on their part.)

Oh yes. I remember plenty of these:

UNSUSCRIBE

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Paul Myers

14 years ago

Dan,

Oh yes. I remember plenty of these:

UNSUSCRIBE

And unsribe, which was my favorite.

The tricky ones were the list managers that used commands like "join listname" and "leave listname." Or "subscribe address@example.com listname." It was often suggested that the ability to subscribe to and unsubscribe from a mailing list should be a requirement for email access.

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Dan C. Rinnert 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

Dan,And unsribe, which was my favorite.

Bingo! I knew there was another one I saw frequently.
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- Paul Myers 14 years ago
  
  Dan,
  
  Bingo! I knew there was another one I saw frequently.
  
  For a while, I used a list manager (I think it was SmartList) that allowed you to put in any number of words that would result in unsubscription. I had all the misspellings of unsubscribe, along with leave, remove, off, and several of the less pleasant words people would use from time to time.
  
  One fellow became quite nasty with me for being unsubbed when he sent an email with vulgarity in the subject line. It got... amusing.
  
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JohnMcCabe

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

Dan,And unsribe, which was my favorite.

The tricky ones were the list managers that used commands like "join listname" and "leave listname." Or "subscribe address@example.com listname." It was often suggested that the ability to subscribe to and unsubscribe from a mailing list should be a requirement for email access.

Paul

Still not a bad idea...

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King Shiloh

Banned 14 years ago

I think the autoresponder is designed in such a way to bore you to a point that you would feel that unsubscribing is not the better option.

The bottom-line is that they want to subscribe you indirectly or unconsciously. So, you might just be subscribing to another newsletter when you thought you were unsubscribing from a particular newsletter from the same marketer or person.

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mrenish

14 years ago

It is done by autoresponders which are sold as reseller account to IMer's. For legal issues I don't want to name them.

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AmyBrown 14 years ago

Originally Posted by mrenish

It is done by autoresponders which are sold as reseller account to IMer's. For legal issues I don't want to name them.

I've received an opt-out confirmation email far more frequently from large corporations than from the "IM" crowd. I noticed one from Wine.com recently.
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14 years ago

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14 years ago

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innocent07 Banned 14 years ago

Mabey its a sneaky way to get you to consider re-subscribing,

rather than just letting you go, when you will be gone forever
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- Kay King 14 years ago
  
  It's just another marketing tactic trying to keep you on the list. I've had two that told me "click this link to confirm your intention to be removed from the list".
  
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  JohnMcCabe 14 years ago
  
  Boy, the reflection from the tin foil hats is blinding today...
  
  I happen to think it's a good idea. Not everyone has a rock-solid Internet connection. Servers hang up, they time out, browsers crash. A benign email that confirms that what I wanted to happen, actually happened? I'm fine with that.
  
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Heidi White

14 years ago

My favorite is when in order to unsubscribe you have to login first.

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