For some reason, I started getting "Late Night Jokes." They're terrible jokes, taken from TV "Comedians" with little brains (in my opinion).
After reading one email, I've been deleting them when I see them. But today I decided to take a minute and tell them to quit sending this drivel.
I hit the unsubscribe button and got this in return:
"Your request to unsubscribe your email address (marte@copybymarte.com) from the 'late_night_jokes' mailing list has been received and will be processed shortly."
"You will be notified of the success or failure by email."
Why should it fail?
I guess this isn't as lame as the one that wouldn't let me unsubscribe without entering my password - which I didn't have because it was something I hadn't asked for in the first place.
Thinking of "Unsubscribe," I've had a strange thing happen.
You may or may not know that I send a weekly newsletter. In keeping with email protocol, at the bottom of each newsletter is an unsubscribe link.
Last week, when I wrote about self-discipline, someone wrote me that they had tried to unsubscribe and it didn't work. When I went to my mailing list provider and checked, they had aready unsubscribed.
This week I wrote about networking, and someone else wanted to unsubscribe. He wrote a nasty note saying that the link didn't work and that meant my mail was spam. I wrote that I would be happy to take him off the list personally - and on checking found the same thing. He was already unsubscribed.
What's strange is that from my computer that link is not live. Other links in the message are live, but not that one. I had to cut and paste the URL, which is a long one. I wrote to customer service and they said "Yes it is live." He went to my newsletter to check and it was just fine from both his desktop and his phone.
So - it's live on some computers and not live on others. How strange.
The nasty man who called my newsletter spam might have really hurt my feelings - but I had 3 notes from other subscribers thanking me for it, and one went so far as to post a testimonial for me on his Facebook page. (So of course I reciprocated.)
Update on Late Night Jokes - they wrote to say I'm unsubscribed, and I found out how I got on the list. The message said I had either subscribed or someone had forwarded it to me.
That brings up a whole other question.
I don't know where my messages go after I send them to my subscribers. Do you?
Do you have a way to track forwards - and if so would you ever arbitrarily add those people to your own mailing list?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this one.
Confusion button courtesy of Stuart Miles @freedigitalphotos.net
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