I get a lot of unwanted email.
Okay, so many of us get unwanted email.
Sometimes it’s from colleagues who have cc’d us into a discussion that we really didn’t need to be copied on, or a thread that started off useful, interesting, or amusing, but which you’ve rapidly lost interest in.
And, of course, most of us are also being sent large volumes of spam. Fortunately, the majority of spam can be quite successfully blocked by your email provider… if you think you’re getting a lot of spam as it is, check your junk or spam folder and see what you’re *not* seeing in your inbox.
But there is also a type of email that doesn’t fall into the above categories. And I’m thinking specifically today of unwanted newsletters.
There are cockwombles out there who seem to have got large amounts of amusement signing up by email addresses for newsletters that I’m not interested in. And because these newsletters don’t do the decent thing of actually *checking* whether someone wanted to sign-up for a newsletter or not (via double opt-in) I keep receiving the newsletters unless I go to the effort of unsubscribing or writing a filter to automatically delete them.
Here’s an example I received in the last few days:
Subject: Get Chicken Sharwarma for Just 1,500 !!! Delivery Within Lagos. WhatsApp Direct Chat Link Inside
Message body:Zaika Lupeju
Chicken Sharwarma For Just 1,500 Naira
To Place Order Call of WhatsApp
Delivery Available
Well, it looks lovely – but a quick glance at the footer of the email reveals that this is ..
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