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I made a bit of a stroppy post the other evening about the sudden influx of emails I received from affiliate managers right after 5pm on a Friday. Julia Stent from Affiliate Window was kind enough to respond to my post and also give me permission to quote her response here. So here’s the relevant part of her email:
“Just wanted to send you a quick message about your post regarding Dixons emails
on Friday night. First off - sorry about that, that was our team here!
“I thought it might be relevant to explain something to do with our email system
(and I suspect other networks too). Sending out emails to the potentially
thousands of affiliates joined to a programme puts a big load on our email
server. If this is done during office hours, it can s...