My MR subscription is by gift, and recently she signed me up for the free newsletter by email. I thought OK, let's check this out. Immediately we started receiving daily spam from MR. Buy this, subscribe to that. Nothing that looked like a newsletter. Finally today I got what seems like the real newsletter, numerous articles and photos.
Is this the normal experience? Daily spam with the occasional newsletter? Is there a way to get just the newsletter withput the in-box filling stuff every day? I love my MR, but this email thing is annoying.
Hi, Enzoamps;
Every morning I have about 30 emails in my InBox. Most are from retailers that I have done business with in the past. Occasionally a spam gets through.
Sure, I could unsubscribe but there is the occasional one that catches my interest.
Takes me about a minute to [Shift + Del > Enter ] and they're gone. I don't mind seeing the offers for books, Classic Trains, sometimes there's offers from manufacturers, Only takes a few seconds to delete. Every once-in-a-while there is something really interesting and I'm glad Kalmbach informed me of it.
Same thing used to happen with my newspaper. Even with a paid subscription, many of the ads for water beds, used cars, back braces, and payday loans just didn't appeal to me. —I turned the page. Problem solved.
e-commerce is here to stay...
Thank You;
Regards, Ed
Newsletters come out weekly, on Thursdays.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
One feature I like about gmail is that (besides spam) it separates my incoming items into "primary" and "promotions" tabs. I think gmail somehow segregates non-spam items going to a zillion people as "promotions". So I just ignore the promotions tab and on occasion go there and delete the lot with two clicks.
I presume if I signed up for the newsletter, it would arrive in my gmail "promotions". I don't know if I could make the newsletter show up as desired in my primary tab and the other stuff stay in the promotions. I know I can't figure out how to make a couple of newsletters from others arrive in my primary tab, say by making them a "contact", as the items come from some intermediate site.
I guess I could sign up and experiment. Or I could do something more fun.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
MR supports this forum and I have no problem with their promoting what they have to offer.
I agree with Ed and receive mail from many RR related sources and read the ones I want or use the delete button. The ones I rreally object to are the unrelated ones that I have to ubsubscribe to but still keep coming.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
Oh well, I guess it is spam for now. My dentist bought a "connection software" package, so now I get multiple reminders of appointments, it wants to know what I thought of my experience there after each visit, and it sends me oral health notes. Same with my doctor, and my cardiologist. The grocer sends me email versions of the weekly flyier that comes in my newspaper and sits by their entrance. Car dealers, pay pal, my insurance companies and their agents (separately). I am awash in spam. I have managed to get rid of most of the spam from my professional career: all the journals and component suppliers. Most of the MR spam seems to be the same things I see on the web page and in the print issue, so it is redundant.
SOme web sites will let you unsubscribe, while others see clicking the unsubscribe button as me verifying my address is live.
Perhaps I am the only one it bothers, but today we got THREE spam messages from MR. That is over the top, and I think we will just unsubscribe to the emails.
I got a few from Kalmbach today, too. I requested to be on the mailing list for Trains, Classic Trains, Garden Railways and M-R. Some I look at, some I delete right away.
So, one of the offers today was a free gift subscription to M-R for a friend if I renew mine for another year. Didn't sound like a bad deal to me and my friend now has a year of MR and my Christmas gift budget just got a $43. boost.
c'est la vie
Ed
I have low-budget Yahoo email, so deleting emails takes forever.
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I just don't read them.
-Kevin
Living the dream.