MailChimp Email Marketing Blog » transational do no reply receipts http://blog.mailchimp.com MailChimp, email marketing, and monkeys! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:04:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Why Do-Not-Reply Is A Bad Ideahttp://blog.mailchimp.com/why-do-not-reply-is-a-bad-idea/ http://blog.mailchimp.com/why-do-not-reply-is-a-bad-idea/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:59:23 +0000 Ben http://blog.mailchimp.com/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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