MailChimp Email Marketing Blog » donotreply http://www.mailchimp.com/blog MailChimp, email marketing, and monkeys! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:20:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Why Do-Not-Reply Is A Bad Idea http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/why-do-not-reply-is-a-bad-idea/ http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/why-do-not-reply-is-a-bad-idea/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:59:23 +0000 Ben http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/why-do-not-reply-is-a-bad-idea/ We all get those transactional (and sometimes marketing) emails that have “donotreply.com” in the reply-to field. Personally, unless it’s just a purchase receipt, I take offense to this. What gives them the right to email me, but ignore me if I reply to them?
Anyway, I came across a pretty interesting article over at Slashdot about a guy who actually owns donotreply.com, and how he gets all that email from people who accidentally reply to those messages. Turns out he gets quite a lot of extremely private information (especially from banks).

It’s pretty funny what he does with the information he gets. Here’s the full article at WashingtonPost.com

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