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March 29, 2006
SMSpam
I just got SMS spammed by singular for their ringtone/images service. Blech. Seems I have a lower tolerance for SMS spam than I do for email spam. More work to delete I guess; plus the beep and vibrate and I thought I was getting a real mesage. So they gave me the option of opting out by returning the sms with the word "stop" in it. So I did. 30 seconds later. The message me back telling me I've been removed. More spam. I had assumed that. I didn't need the message. Now it is going to take 10 days for my preferences to take affect. 10 days? Why doesn't the MT application that responded to my SMS just set a boolean value in their database that they check before they spam. Should be instantaneous. Ten days? Wonder how much spam I'm going to get in the next 10 days.
Posted by David Adams at March 29, 2006 12:58 PM
Comments
Last mobile place I worked for I SMSpammed about 4 million customers on behalf of a carrier for a promotion.
Posted by: Corey Jewett at March 30, 2006 07:06 AM
Yeah? How's that company doing now?
Posted by: David Adams at March 31, 2006 02:16 PM