How to clean your list from already registered spam addresses
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:14 am
All the methods we have seen so far allow you to prevent spam subscriptions to your newsletter .
But what if some bots have already been added to your list?
In this case, I recommend you do a manual check. If you have many thousands of belgium phone number list subscribers, it will certainly be a long and boring job, I understand. But think that, once finished, you will have much more accurate statistics and your level of reliability will only grow (with less risk of being marked as spam yourself).
So check the addresses in your list and find out if there are addresses with meaningless alphanumeric strings, very long ones or that have many numbers, for example etc. Usually these are spam addresses .
Also check email addresses with foreign domains, or with “risky” domains identified by SpamHaus.
To make sure they are truly bots, and not simply youthful mistakes of some subscriber, check their activity on newsletters. If they never open the emails, or on the contrary if they open them all and click on all the links in them, then it is very likely spam.
Finally, delete all users who signed up with a temporary email service, such as YOPmail or similar.
Another method that is used very often by those who manage a newsletter is to simply ask people if they want to continue to remain subscribed.
With the best newsletter services, you can set up an automation that sends an email after a certain period of inactivity from a subscriber. For example, if the user doesn't open any emails in six months, they will receive a message asking: "Do you want to stay subscribed?"
At this point there will be a choice:
a link to stay subscribed;
a link to unsubscribe.
But what if some bots have already been added to your list?
In this case, I recommend you do a manual check. If you have many thousands of belgium phone number list subscribers, it will certainly be a long and boring job, I understand. But think that, once finished, you will have much more accurate statistics and your level of reliability will only grow (with less risk of being marked as spam yourself).
So check the addresses in your list and find out if there are addresses with meaningless alphanumeric strings, very long ones or that have many numbers, for example etc. Usually these are spam addresses .
Also check email addresses with foreign domains, or with “risky” domains identified by SpamHaus.
To make sure they are truly bots, and not simply youthful mistakes of some subscriber, check their activity on newsletters. If they never open the emails, or on the contrary if they open them all and click on all the links in them, then it is very likely spam.
Finally, delete all users who signed up with a temporary email service, such as YOPmail or similar.
Another method that is used very often by those who manage a newsletter is to simply ask people if they want to continue to remain subscribed.
With the best newsletter services, you can set up an automation that sends an email after a certain period of inactivity from a subscriber. For example, if the user doesn't open any emails in six months, they will receive a message asking: "Do you want to stay subscribed?"
At this point there will be a choice:
a link to stay subscribed;
a link to unsubscribe.