I don't see the big deal. One email every six moths or so.....

Jeff

What email is this? Why didn't I receive it? What did I do to exclude myself for being considered being sent a marketing mail? Not emailing it to me is actually the worst decision Linode has ever made.

Sending mail occasionally about new services is fine. Doing it a lot isn't and there should be a way of opting out while still being able to receive important notifications by email.

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I agree with sweh on this, but not so much I'd complain about it.

Lots of otherwise sensible companies piss me off by flooding me with marketing emails and snail mails. I get so much of this stuff it's ridiculous. I can't just filter out emails from companies I deal with.

There's a restaurant down the road from my house I go to a lot. Really good food, lots of menu options I lot, so I vary it up quite a bit. I'm sure I've been there at least a couple hundred times now. They messed up my order once. That's not a bad rate (especially compared to some other places I've been), and it's certainly not enough to stop me from going there again.

I'd still prefer it not have happened, though.

Why did I just get marketing email about a Singapore data center, then?

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I would consider a new datacenter a change in service yet you're still bitching about it. Bumping a two year old thread is more spammy than the email you can magic away (see vonskippy's response from two years ago).

Drink some tea and calm your ass down. Linode is providing you with a great service and has sent you a whopping three emails over the past 12 years. If that's spam then you should simply log out of your mail client and keep it that way.

I'm a new customer to Linode, and have been reading around the forums to kind of get the lay of the land this evening.

If this is the "worst decision Linode has ever made", then I'm in pretty darned good shape. Seems like an epic overreaction to me.

This is not worst decision in any way. You should use different email accounts, for linode VPS administration and for your personal stuff. And I like getting all notifications. Because when your account or a single VPS gets compromised you gonna know that in most cases. It is nice security feature. And this post is probably as someone already mentioned is a troll post.

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I can't believe any of us are even entertaining this thread.

Get. A. Life.