Washington Post: Ignoring Unsubscribes
The Washington Post, one of the major newspapers in the U.S., just started emailing advertisements to the email addresses of people who have accounts there to comment. I was foolish, and provided my usual blog commenting email address instead of a tagged address that I could turn off if needed. :/ I unsubscribed, and also sent email to their ESP E-Dialog (now eBay). The unwanted advertising emails have continued. I want to warn users that either the Washington Post is ignoring unsubscribes or E-Dialog’s unsubscribe system is unconscionably slow despite having (twice now) confirmed that my email address was removed.
I don’t doubt that the Washington Post included the right to send marketing email in their agreement/notification for those who sign up for accounts, either when I signed up or as a later amendment. Not honoring unsubscribes after ten days becomes a CAN-SPAM violation, however. Not honoring unsubscribes *immediately* after you confirm that the email address has been unsubscribed qualifies as TERRIBLE manners. 🙁 I have therefore filtered all email from the Washington Post’s IP at E-Dialog into my junk folder.
The spam sample below is unredacted.
Sending IP: 208.94.22.106
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:08:08 -0400
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