I will now consider Priceline emails as spam…

Posted by Angelo on September 24, 2007

… except of course any involving requests I’ve made.

One of the rules for not being considered a spammer is to let people unsubscribe from your mailing list. I have tried to unsubscribe from Priceline’s list(s) three times now (a generous allowance only because I actually signed up with them). From now on, every unsolicited email I get from them is going to be marked as spam.

And guess what? That’s all that really should matter to them. In fact, spam isn’t a science and it isn’t a legal definition. I’m not sure that they’re doing anything illegal, or simply just playing loopholes (or maybe they’re just plain too stupid). They could have 100 mailing lists, and I could be on every one of them, and it may be perfectly legal for them to expect me to opt out of each one.

It doesn’t matter. What matters is the receiver’s opinion of what they’re sending. If people start marking their mail as spam, then the spam filters will start blocking it. Not really a good policy for a company to have.

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