Aug 21 2007 ∞
Dear Rapleaf Guys: There Is No Good Spam
I found a few versions of this in my inbox a few minutes ago:
Dear “friends” at Rapleaf.com,
I know you’re probably just “alerting” me that “someone” might have found possibly incriminating links to my various social network profiles, and that is so nice of you.
You know what else it is? Spamming. That’s true! Ask your friends.
Sure, there is this “If you do not want to receive emails from Rapleaf, click here” link at the bottom of each unsolicited mail you’ve sent me. So what? I didn’t opt in for these mails in the first place. Someone searched for my email address, and you’ve simply used it to send out advertising. Face it: That’s what it is.
Okay, listen up, dear clueless people at Related posts:
Carlo – Thanks for the writeup on Rapleaf and lettings us know your thoughts. We’re a startup and we’re quickly learning what works and what doesn’t for everyone. Feedback from users like you is at the core of our learning. We greatly apologize for any inconvenience, and if we can be of any assistance or if you have other feedback, please don’t hesitate to email us anytime.
—Dan
Rapleaf
dan |AT| rapleaf.com
I agree! I just received SPAM and so did my entire gmail contact list because I used upscoop a while ago! This makes me feel disgusting and I wish I could remove rapleaf and upscoop from the web.
You’re a startup so we should forgive you for spamming? Hello? You’re a bunch of idiots is what you are. You have just completely destroyed your own reputation.
I am very very pissed off and so are lots of other people. Go bust, go bust now, and get jobs in the cleaning industry or something worthwhile like that.
Under what rock has one have to have hidden over the past decade to not knowing that spamming people is bad? Especially, as happened to me, spamming an email address which I had never used publically and was up ‘til now safe from spam? There’s very good reasons why people don’t want such email addresses known by companies and broadcast to the world.
P.
I totally understand and share your anger. One of my e-mail addresses I never used with my name was linked to my Flickr account so People could find out who is behind this e-mail address. I was well annoyed. Also it seems that if they write to you that they have removed your details they still keep them internally they just do not display them on Rapleaf (however they do on uscoop.com) Grr*Grr This makes me frustrated