Comments on: iPhone Users: Check Your AT&T “Marketing Settings” http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:39:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: shawnblanc.net » iPhone Tips & Tutorials: A semi-comprehensive link list http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/#comment-201 shawnblanc.net » iPhone Tips & Tutorials: A semi-comprehensive link list Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:26:17 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/#comment-201 <p>[...] AT&T Marketing Settings - How to adjust your account so you don’t get spam from AT&T. [...]</p> [...] AT&T Marketing Settings – How to adjust your account so you don’t get spam from AT&T. [...]

]]> By: anti_pedant http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/#comment-200 anti_pedant Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:02:00 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/#comment-200 <p>It's fucking spam. It's unsolicited, undesired, useless, bandwidth-wasting, sanity-crushing spam. Opt-out or not, people should start standing up for themselves to companies like this that seem to think they can treat their customers this way. You shouldn't have to opt out. You should have the option of a carrier with the dignity to politely provide service and the leave leave you the hell alone until you ask them to do something else for you. Boycott AT&T.</p> It’s fucking spam. It’s unsolicited, undesired, useless, bandwidth-wasting, sanity-crushing spam. Opt-out or not, people should start standing up for themselves to companies like this that seem to think they can treat their customers this way. You shouldn’t have to opt out. You should have the option of a carrier with the dignity to politely provide service and the leave leave you the hell alone until you ask them to do something else for you. Boycott AT&T.

]]> By: Stephen http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/#comment-199 Stephen Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:04:23 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/#comment-199 <p>Not to be a pedant, but this is not "spam." Let's be precise about our words, or they'll come to mean nothing.</p> <p>But I understand wanting to turn this off.</p> Not to be a pedant, but this is not “spam.” Let’s be precise about our words, or they’ll come to mean nothing.

But I understand wanting to turn this off.

]]> By: DaveD http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/#comment-198 DaveD Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:14:15 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/07/iphone-users-check-your-att-marketing-settings/#comment-198 <p>Found this through DaringFireball. Maybe John Gruber will notice this....</p> <p>Just went to my account. Brand new - never had a wireless number until iPhone. I already had a paperless bill setup - and only had the "email new news" checkbox checked.</p> <p>Possibly because I actually took the time to visit the site on my introductory email from AT&T?</p> <p>Yes, these things are buried. But maybe there's a bit more at work here - like defaults that give you and John dozens of paper paes to your bill, that some of us simply turned off as a normal thing to do when one signs up with a new service provider who bills you on a monthly basis. I mean - they DO have to demand payment one way or another, right? And yeah, snailmail may be outdated... but it usually is an "opt-out" sort of thing. At least in my experience.</p> <p>Just a thought....</p> Found this through DaringFireball. Maybe John Gruber will notice this….

Just went to my account. Brand new – never had a wireless number until iPhone. I already had a paperless bill setup – and only had the “email new news” checkbox checked.

Possibly because I actually took the time to visit the site on my introductory email from AT&T?

Yes, these things are buried. But maybe there’s a bit more at work here – like defaults that give you and John dozens of paper paes to your bill, that some of us simply turned off as a normal thing to do when one signs up with a new service provider who bills you on a monthly basis. I mean – they DO have to demand payment one way or another, right? And yeah, snailmail may be outdated… but it usually is an “opt-out” sort of thing. At least in my experience.

Just a thought….

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