Is it just me, or is unsolicited mailing from blogs on the rise? Just recently, I have received increasing amounts of mailshots from blogs I have visited, telling me about their latest post, asking me to give them a Stumble or Digg or to take part in something.
Please note, I am not talking about a single email, person to person, but an obvious mailshot sent out to dozens, if not hundreds of addresses.In none of the cases am I particularly ‘close’ with the blogger, but I have commented at least once, and I’m guessing that’s how my address got on the list.
Am I behind the times, or is this just spam? I have emailed other bloggers before, and I love to get emails from my readers, but in all cases these were personal or other matters not suited to being left in a comment box. They were not ‘cc’d’ to 100 other people.
Have you received any of these mailshots? What’s your opinion?
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI started to say that I hadn’t received one of those, but I did — twice. Both were about a technorati favorites exchange. They are most definitely spam unless you agreed to be on any kind of mailing list. Personal, one-on-one, messages are acceptable and desired by 99 percent of the people out there. Mass mailings are not. Any blog author that abuses his/her commenters’ email addresses, no matter how innocent the message may be, doesn’t deserve to be revisited.
It hasn’t happened to me, but I agree it’s definitely spam.
I don’t care if it is cc’d or a seperate mail just for me - if it is unsolicited mail, trying to get me to do something I otherwise wouldn’t think of. Or shortly put: It is 100% spam.
Yep, got some, hate ‘em.
I don’t see any of these in my mailbox. Lots of other spam though.
These people need to be careful, for now I’ve just deleted the mails.
If large numbers of people report them as spam, it could do their domain serious damage.
I have always wondered about providing an email address on comment forms on blogs.
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Have to add that I think gmail has a great spam filter.
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i received tons of spam but a few are from people asking for digg …
i guess there’s a section of bloggers who are desperate to have huge (quality aside) traffic within shortest time possible … but they fail to realize for sustainability, your contents have to be able to attract loyal readers …
cheers
GMail’s spam catcher is pretty good.
I don’t know whether to start naming&shaming, or just delete the mails as spam….
Most bloggers haven’t ever done any research and get presented with all these email addresses and think they can do whatever they like with it.
In my comments policy I specifically reserve the rights to contact someone directly, but not to add them to any mailing list.
Then again, you can also get a spam complaint from people who subscribed to comments on your blog. You might not get taken to court over it, because it is relatively low volume, but it could give you delivery problems. I know a few blogs where I have delivery problems with Gmail.
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