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"Ravenstine, kick your goals into overdrive now"
"Check this feature out!"
"We're the best, but don't take our word for it"
"Your account is waiting for you"
"This will be like money in your pocket"
"Don't miss out on our webinar"
"The gift that keeps on giving"
"It's been a while..."
"So this is goodbye, Ravenstine?"
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F--- YOU! F--- YOU F--- YOU F--- YOU F--- YOU!!!
I hate to admit this, but we send a lot of email like this at work, and I always get tickets like "all of our email is being marked as spam, can you fix DNS?" Usually it is a DNS issue (people add email senders without setting up Spam Permitted From and DKIM), but nobody will address the elephant in the room that maybe users don't want to read our marketing newsletters. They likely get 100 of the same things from 100 other vendors, and at some point, enough is enough.
(Dunno if this is a public Gmail feature or one that I'm allowlisted into from working at Google in the past, but I have a "tabbed inbox" and everything like this goes in "Promotions". I look in there from time to time and see thousands of messages a day of this type. Everyone sends these and Gmail knows that nobody wants to read them. It's unfortunate, but true.)
They were linking their accounts to use some spammy marketing software to mass send "campaigns ".
Marketing should be forbidden.
It's apparently a public feature, since I remember being annoyed by the tabs and disabling them in Gmail preferences.
You can tell which companies have especially corrupt and greedy corporate cultures by how they treat your email address. Whenever I find myself witnessing behaviors like this I do my best to move off the platform and bad mouth them whenever I can.
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/31/can-i-get-your-email/
+ anybody else miss reading about the Rust Evangelism Task Force?
Of course I mark them as spam and blacklist them. I often see followups months later in my trash box. It makes me feel good at least having wasted some of their time.
On LinkedIn I blocked my last name to non-contacts (everyone else it just shows my initial) because our work has a simple email address naming scheme (first.last@company.com). But still I get an absolute ton of them. Literally several per day. It's so annoying, though most of them are not as persistant as I mentioned in my post above.
All of them seem to be from the US by the way, and always trying to propose meetings during US timezones so they seem unaware that I'm in Europe. I'm kinda suspecting a data leak in the past or something.