Mailchimp Project Omnivore: Declassified

http://blog.mailchimp.com/project-omnivore-declassified/

by dajobe • 15 years ago

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mgkimsal• 15 years ago

Interesting that they link to a definition of spam which is 'both unsolicited and bulk'. The vast majority of people I know who are militant about spam focus solely on the unsolicited aspect. I guess spam is still in the eye of the beholder. ??

lanstein• 15 years ago

Unsolicited commercial email (UCE) is the definition I think of.

derleth2• 15 years ago

I disagree with this because it opens the door to endless argument over what 'commercial' means.

Besides, I just want a clean inbox. I don't care whether a given piece of trash came from a commercial or non-commercial source.

derleth2• 15 years ago

If you shut down all unsolicited email, you've removed a lot of the value of email in the eyes of most people. Prospective employers can't contact you, relatives can't reconnect, and so on. Focusing on the bulk aspect makes a lot more sense.

(Besides, if you don't want any unsolicited emails, it's pretty trivial to blacklist everyone and then manually add exceptions after you've agreed in advance to allow someone to email you. ISPs and such don't need to get involved in that, so they don't need to worry about it.)

suking2• 15 years ago

Has to be commercial I believe. A job prospect I don't think would be commercial, just trying to get info...

ChuckMcM• 15 years ago

This is a great read, although the tool seems predicated on transactions which both start and end in their mail system.

nerdo• 15 years ago

This is from jan 2010?

biot• 15 years ago

Yep... previous discussion (484 days ago):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1080700

dajobe2• 15 years ago

I assumed the submission software would notice dupes of existing stories and point at them. The URLs seem the same.

dajobe2• 15 years ago

That's true, but it's still an interesting read, it hasn't really dated.

dkarl• 15 years ago

Dangit.... I was looking at a job listing for Mailchimps a few months ago and got as far as "MailChimp is a DIY email-marketing service..." before closing the tab, assuming they were spammers or spammer-enablers. I wonder if they get that knee-jerk reaction a lot.

maxer• 15 years ago

i dont use mailchimp because there spam control is too tight- i have email lists of small business owners who i have permission to be email but since they are generic emails addresses like info@domain or support@domain they wont let me send- means i lose 15% of my list and often the ones who need the email the most

suking2• 15 years ago

If you use their API you can add these. Takes like 5 mins to program...

Mailchimp Project Omnivore: Declassified

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