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GETTING TOO MANY E-MAILS FROM US?
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This addressed a period when subscribers were getting too many e-mails. When the Driverless Transportation website was revamped, subscriber notifications changed along with it. The new version of the site had two types of subscriptions.
- Mile Marker Newsletter - The Mile Marker highlighted what was happening in the world of Driverless Transportation, sent no more than once per week.
- Everything Subscriber - This subscription sent an e-mail every time something new was posted to the site — a separate list from the Mile Marker, and one that could arrive several times a day.
Anyone viewing this as an e-mail was on the Everything Subscriber list by default, with an unsubscribe link at the bottom of each message for those who wanted fewer e-mails.
The first Mile Marker newsletter went out that Tuesday to anyone already subscribed.
The Everything list required subscribers to unsubscribe themselves — it could not be done for them.
The redundancy was a known side effect of the transition at the time.