what the hell is this world coming to?

[kermalou]

i want to send out an email to a real estate broker in my area and she sends this garbage, guess i aint (speeling/grammar nazis, i dont care) contacting this one any further...

I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.

To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand.

If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you, I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience.

Click the link below to fill out the request:

https://webmail.pas.earthlink.net/wam/a...cccccc@earthlink.net&id=1daxxxxdqZFpQ0

 

[DaTT]

Fire him/her

 

[notfred]

I jsut don't publish my email address, but then I'm not running a business with it, either.

 

Find another broker/agent.

 

[FoBoT]

it is an effective anti-spam method

i am sure lots of businesses have trouble sorting real email from spam

 

[iamwiz82]

Well, considering I am bombarded every time I list something on Ebay/Autotrader/ATFS to ship to Kenya, Nigeria, or some other place, I think it's the only thing you can do.

 

[PanzerIV]

For all you know this lady gets innundated with hundreds of SPAM messages everyday and this is the only thing she could come up with to solve the problem. She's still providing an easy method to contact her so I don't see what the big deal is.

 

[Vic]

People in sales (real estate, finance, and insurance in particular) do a lot of business via email and have to have their email addresses out in public view in order to do business. As such, they get unbelievable amounts of spam if not filtered/controlled somehow. Even with filtering, I get some 200+ spam per day on my work email address. So cut your broker some slack, eh?

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
it is an effective anti-spam method

i am sure lots of businesses have trouble sorting real email from spam

:thumbsup:

A method like this was discussed at a few TS2 conferences I attended. Because bots can't click on links, and most of all aren't even using legitemate emails, then this proves to be an effective anti-spam filter. The small difference between the one microsoft was proposing was where you just clicked the link and it added you to safe-senders list; no form needed. This is however a bit more secure I suppose. It might be a bit much, but if the company was getting a whole lot of spam that wastes time, and time = money.

 

[kermalou]

if it was a click I would love it, but since its a form its a no goh

 

[Bootprint]

Create an automatic reply with the exact same message.

See if you can create a loop.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: notfred
I jsut don't publish my email address, but then I'm not running a business with it, either.

I don't publish a particular email address of mine either ... only 2 people in this world know it and I only send mail to either of them exclusively. One of them got hit by a virus (i kept getting virus emails from a variant of their address for weeks)... then after that's all cleared up, I now get actual spam in that mailbox. :|

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
Create an automatic reply with the exact same message.

See if you can create a loop.

:thumbsup:

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: DaTT
Fire him/her

I agree. YOU are the customer, and they are causing you an inconvenience. Don't put up with it.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: DaTT
Fire him/her

I agree. YOU are the customer, and they are causing you an inconvenience. Don't put up with it.

:roll:

edit:

I apologize for this one-time inconvenience.

You people are assholes... :frown:

 

[StageLeft]

hehe, would love to set that sort of thing up for my family, actually, but if I'm trying to get new business, I can filter out the spam myself.

 

[rocadelpunk]

i think it's a great idea to combat spam, i can't believe you won't spend the extra 30seconds it takes to confirm.

put it this way, instead of scratching your nuts for a min or two out of your day, you sign up for her approved e-mail list.

done and done

and if you really missed scratching your nuts, do it for 4 min tomorrow.

 

[iamwiz82]

It is probably all the better for the sales person, since they will not have to deal with dumbass customers OR spam! :thumb;

 

[Conky]

If you are too lame to return an email you would probably be a time wasting tire-kicker of a customer too. The spam filter works!

 

[rh71]

and why doesn't her company have spam filters ? Or is it a personal address ?

 

[Vegito]

some company only allow white list.. meaning, you're not on their list, you can't send them emails... mine is ready to do that... and yeah we have multi layer spam filter, primary external filter @ postini, second layer on exchange front end with baysien filter and then layer 3 using the regular keyword filters. Does it work ? yeah, takes about 99% but spammer always use or change IP so...