In the email lists (Faithlife account), what does "Get it all" get you?
I recently unsubscribed from all Logos emails, then I went back and signed up again, but to only Learn Logos and Word by Word. At the bottom of the page, there's a "Get it all" option and I'd initially checked that box, thinking it related to the Word by Word updates. However, yesterday, I got a "See what we're reading" email from Logos, and I don't understand why.
Do the "See what we're reading" emails have anything to do with Learn Logos or Word by Word? I don't see how. Or does the "Get it all" option mean get all emails, including promo emails like this one? I don't understand. In any case, I've unchecked it until I know better.
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what does "Get it all" get you?
A full inbox.
More seriously, I do believe that "Get it all" refers only to the Word by Word Blog Updates. However, there are many more emails that Logos sends out that are sent to everyone who has elected to receive any emails from Logos at all. Unfortunately, these other emails are not specifically listed, and one cannot unsubscribe from them. There have been many requests for improvements in this area.
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Yes. I recently subscribed to what I thought was only the Daily Deals. Nope. I got the same see what we are reading e-mail you got, plus a bunch more (included the dreaded "hey your cart is calling" e-mail that I'll get every day until I get around to removing those items from my cart).
And I ended up just unsubscribing from it. Too many other unwanted e-mails, and most of the time the daily deal e-mail came like 3 or 4 hours after it was posted, so I've already seen it by then.
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Dear Logos, I answered your request to "Help us understand what types of emails would be most relevant to you" by checking the Learn Logos and Word by Word Blog Updates options. Aside from emails that are specific to my account, the only others I want to see from you are emails from these two categories.
I do not want random emails about new books. I do not want suggestions for my library. I do not want to know what your staff are reading. I only want to get emails that are either specific to my account or emails that fall into these two categories I checked from your Emails List.
Going forward, every email you send me that is outside the allowed categories, I will treat as the junk that it is and send it to the Spam folder. I will not delete it. I will not unsubscribe. I will send it to the Spam folder "to help protect all Gmail users from unwanted email."
I will let your emails keep company with the icky ones that offer me money from Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and the like. It's only right for unwanted emails to stay together.
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But if you report the sender (Logos) as spam, won't you then effectively block everything from Logos?
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I rather dig around in the Spam folder every once in a while to see if there’s anything important than have their emails come directly to my inbox. I’m sick of these promotional emails. Sick. Of. Them.
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I get the feeling you're just teensy bit frustrated. I was, years back. I received the 'Do Not Contact!' flag at Logos. I assume it's now in the dust-bin, but I'm still just getting book receipts only.
The lesson for Logos, is once burned, twice shy … 15 yrs later.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Oh, you're brave! I never ever even look in the spam folder! If someone genuinely wants to get a message to me and it's in spam, they'll have to try another way.
Can you just go look at the Logos website yourself every now and then instead of getting email notifications?
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At the end of last year I had unsubscribed from everything but, knowing the dysfunctional way they send out their communications, I got concerned I might not get emails related to my subscription, plus I do want to know when there are new webinars. And the RSS feed I used for the Word by Word articles stopped working. With all this, I figured I would sign up again but bypass all promotional emails. I don't think that lasted a full month before I started getting these random promo emails again. And it even got a little worse after I purchased the 2025 libraries recently. What did I trigger??
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I regularly look in my Spam folder because genuine emails can get caught up in there. I find that Gmail is very good with assigning spam; just about 100% of what goes to spam is truly spam. Hotmail, not so much. I occasionally find good stuff in the Junk folder; even emails related to my Microsoft subscription sometimes gets caught up in the Junk folder 🤦🏽♀️
Can you just go look at the Logos website yourself every now and then instead of getting email notifications?
I probably can but I won't. Logos allowed me to set preferences and they should respect these preferences. Their email distribution lists are flawed; assigning their unwanted emails to my Spam folder is my way of helping them get around to fixing it.
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Yesterday I was celebrating a full month of no unwanted emails from Logos (and even congratulating myself that the send to Spam folder strategy worked so well) … only to get a "Just Released" email from them this morning!🤦🏽♀️😭😂
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Wow.. this is like a Logosian saga, flashing email swords, only for the downed email-robot to return again!
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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