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Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed)

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject	Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed)
Date	2024-10-21 18:20 +0000
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Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 17:50 this Saturday (GMT):
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:35:28 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
><rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote:
>
>>I've never understood why marketing douchebags don't understand that
>>excessive spam tends to make us think less of their product, not more.
>>
>>There's probably a sweet spot frequency interval where "offers"
>>actually strike the target and gain the recipients interest, and as
>>someone who made it their life's goal to be SURE I never invest time
>>trying to learn the art of effective marketing I can't claim to know
>>what that interval is, but I don't think incessant spam is the ticket.
>
> Yeah, I agree. Too few emails and I will forget your site even exists,
> too many and I will become numb to them and just ignore all of them. 
>
> That is exactly what happened with GOG for me. I agree with Spalls
> here too. Those 24 hour so and so game expires emails from them are
> both excessive and annoying. They need to fucking tell you what game
> is being offered in the subject header. They don't and so I have had
> enough. I just delete them immediately.


Most of my main email is spam I never read. On the other hand, the only
thing that my secondary email gets spammed by is Tumblr.
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Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-19 10:21 -0400
  Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> - 2024-10-19 12:35 -0400
    Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2024-10-19 13:50 -0400
      Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-21 18:20 +0000
  Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) - 2024-10-20 00:01 +0000
    Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-20 10:22 -0400
    Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2024-10-20 13:10 -0400
  Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-10-21 20:19 +0000
    Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-23 04:10 +0000
  Re: Oh, GOG.Com (Oct 2024 Ed) PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> - 2024-10-28 09:29 -0600

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