So, full disclosure, in addition to being kind of an anti-spam zealot, my day job is running marketing operations at a big-ish software company. So I get the fun job of telling everyone from the junior intern to the senior VP that no, my team is not going to send that email for you. That no, in fact, I don't care what the old person in my job let you do, or what you did at your old company, or how many levels above me you are in the org chart. We're only going to email people what they asked for, at the frequency they asked for it, on the topics they asked to hear about. These new Gmail/Yahoo rules have helped immensely in making the case to our CMO to have my back.
