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Written by adam on 06.18.08
Good catch. That disclaimer does need more clarification, which we will definitely do.
Amit, to answer your question - no, this policy does not apply to our RSS feeds, only the daily emails. Our reasoning was if someone had received 30 of our daily emails in a row and hadn’t opened any of them, then he/she were probably not that interested anymore. And as Adam points out, rather than continue to pollute someone’s inbox with potentially unwanted email, we figured we’d just stop sending to these people.
Joe Miller
Managing Director, Consumer Division
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Written by Joe Miller on 06.26.08