We have deployed a new aggregation scheme for email that should make it a bit less spammy.
The scheme works as follows, you will get an email from a group after 5 minutes. If you do not reply to that email, the next email will come after 10 minutes. If you don’t reply once again, you will get the next email after 20 minutes, then 40 minutes, etc, doubling until it hits 6 hours.
If you reply to an email, it will reset back down to 5 minutes. It’s sort of like an exponential back-off scheme. The rationale for doing this is to allow people to converse with a group, while reducing the spammy-ness of groups you only want to observe.
Your feedback on this scheme would be much appreciated.
July 11, 2008 at 2:41 pm |
Is it ever safe to be sending mail to an account that hasn’t explicitly verified by clicking an email registration link?
The potential for abuse of Chatterous to send spam is really high if you send user-generated content to a non-registered user. I would think it most prudent to only send UGC to registered opt-in user.
If you start getting lots of spam reports, your ability to deliver mail at all will be damaged by getting a high spam score.
October 10, 2008 at 12:38 am |
Not sure if I like the scheme from a moderators point of view. If I am moderating a discussion in one of my groups by e-mail and not participating, the e-mails will stop. Should be a way to turn off this feature so there is a steady stream of information coming.
If the e-mails ever bother me, I simply @stop or @snooze them.
October 14, 2008 at 7:31 pm |
The emails will not stop completely, they will just arrive in your inbox less often as larger digests. Is that still not an ideal scheme for you?