Newsletter quality

“Permission goes stale.” - Preach on brother! This important rule reminds me of Jakob Nielsen’s proposed ‘token’ based permission system. Jakob idea involves giving a company a digital token that will allow one (or some other limited number) of opportunities to contact you without divulging your actual address.

Good call.

But Nielsen would want to tie those tokens to micropayments. :)

When I am required to divulge an email address, I often use a Sneakemail address. Sneakemail is a free service that allows you to create an unlimited number of thowaway email addresses that forward to your real email. If a company starts abusing it or if it shows up on a spam list, you can block all email forwarding or even delete the address altogether.

http://sneakemail.com/

I joined classmates several months ago. I changed computers and e mail a address. I can not get in touch with any one at your Help address. I sent a address change but when I go to Classmates all i get is advertising to get a a gold membership. I already have one under my old address but can not get it changed to my new email address. My old email address was ltankersley@ @hormel.com I am a member of the 1961 class at Whitehaven High school in Memmpis Tenn. I s there any way I can get this changed to my new address Right now the membership is worthless

Since I’m not affiliated with Classmates.com, there’s not much I can do to help.

Apparently this page is one of the top search results for classmates.com/help, so I get a number of visitors who typed that URL into a search engine instead of their browser’s address bar.

Many of these people think that they’ve reached Classmates for some reason and send me a message asking for help. Many of these people have similar problems. They’ve tried contacting Classmates Help and don’t ever get a response.