RTD spams the neighborhood
Posted on | October 9, 2007 | 5 Comments
For the second time in about a month, the Richmond Times-Dispatch sent out an email to its readership with the following headline: “BREAKING NEWS UPDATE – 3 Arrested in JFK Airport Terror Plot.” A bit chilling, huh.
However, three people weren’t arrested in a JFK plot this week (nor earlier this month). That was this past spring. And the RTD continues to email its readers about it.
The RTD actually meant to send out an alert that I-64 is closed in eastern Henrico.
Come on RTD. Quit spamming me.
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October 9th, 2007 @ 9:04 am
RTD apologized…
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-10-09-0168.html
October 9th, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
they need to stop calling my house and trying to sell me a subscription and then hanging up on me when i say i don’t want one…
October 10th, 2007 @ 6:28 am
Hey – yYou signed up for the alert. If you don’t want to recieve their notices any more, there should be an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
Call it like it is though. They made a simple mistake but they’re not spamming you.
Besides, they reserve the spam for internal communications.
I get blood drive notices, weight watcher memos, United Way pledge drive reminders and more — with no way to unsubscribe.
October 11th, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
More spam today. The actual email, no joke…
BREAKING NEWS: BE SURE TO CHANGE HEADLINE
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE
HEADLINE GOES HERE — DID YOU CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE?
text goes here
October 16th, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
Another Spam…
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