UptoUs – More Spamming Crap
I get totally fed up with spam and by companies and organizations that overuse email to the point that their messaging just becomes spam noise. I killed my facebook account because of what looked like a bug in the Facebook email system that just pounded repeat emails at me. And now a sports team my son is on is going email happy…. Over the last few weeks I received something like 40 email messages, many of them restatements of the same thing. I compare that to his little league team, who’s coaches and parents had a very effective small email list that bounced around useful information. Anyhow part of my issue with the current sports team is they are using UptoUs. One annoying thing with UptoUs is that they apparently think it is OK to proactively spam potential group members. Anybody can apparently create a group of people and send out emails to that group, including to people who are invitees but have not signed up to be a group member. And non-signed up people seem to be able to keep being sent emails (forever?). How is this in any way a good idea. By all means provide a way for new members to sign up but there is no excuse to keep spamming people who have never signed up. Anyhow that just got uptous 30 or so “spam” clicks in my Yahoo Account and across enough annoyed email recipients hopefully that be will help get them ranked as a spammer with popular email services.
