Over the last few days I’ve received several emails asking me to tick a box if I wish to get more emails from them. I assume we have all been getting them.
I have yet to tick any box. Keeping my emails down would be good for me. Every morning I go down the list deleting at least seventy percent of my inbox.
Many of the mails are from good causes that I support but I don’t necessarily want to keep getting their emails...
My biggest band of unwanted mail is still from Anonymous.
I get at least fifteen of these every day . I don’t read them , I just go down the list and press delete.
If someone has made it illegal to send unwanted emails that would be excellent.
On most mail there is an unsubscribe option. This makes it easy.
The one I’ve tried to get rid of most often is the cooking page from the New York Times. It arrives very late in the day with wonderful pictures of what I can cook.
I’ve tried to unsubscribe with no success. I’ve even spoken to someone about it but it seems that the only way to stop the pictures of food is to cancel the whole thing.
Since I enjoy reading most of the articles I have to accept those I don’t want.
It’s a silly little niggle I know.
Unwanted email is only a tiny problem and easy to deal with but it would be good to know that someone somewhere is trying to cut out the nuisance ones on our behalf.
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1 comment:
The new rules for GPDR in the UK and Europe, mean that people who hold our contact details, need to get an 'informed consent' to continue storing and using our personal data, including emails after 25 May 18, so those people are keen to get us to resubscribe, to show that they are compliant. Your idea of not resubscribing sounds good, and if you want to get rid of the NYT emails, after 25 May, if they keep sending them, they are breaking the law. Report them to the Information Commissioner who will take action.
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