TOT Marketing emails

I agree. The smart ones allow you to choose the frequency.

Yes but on all the sites I look at there are opt out links checkboxes etc, so why not do that and reduce the amount of unwanted data spewing from their servers? I think the most annoying are the unsolicited ones, many are probably just phishing for a return to add you to an email list, but some do in fact come from subsidiaries of a company you dealt with. In my view, these should have to disclose where they got the data about you and what it contains. Brian

I find the easiest thing is just to scroll to the bottom of the email and select "unsubscribe". The mark it as junk. End of. They al have that option, i understand it is mandatory.

And they use it to detect a valid email address with a user at the end of it.

Your email address will go on a hot list for the NEXT spamnmer

The smart ones allow you to say no thank you.

That can apply to unsolicited spam, but if it's unwanted email from someone you have had dealings with, they tend to obey GDPR

Um, if you?ve purchased something on line you?ve probably already given a valid email address.

Possible if you?re responding to unsolicited spam but that?s not what we?re talking about. Sending such emails to your spam folder is daft when there?s a perfectly valid ?unsubscribe? option from a known sender.

Tim

Yes, in general I think clicking 'unsubscribe' is more positive than negative overall.

worse is when you buy something for delivery

and they put on the list for their paper catalogue once every three months

Several one-off purchases of plumbing/electrical items (from a punter who is obviously domestic cos you don't tick the VAT receipt box) have resulted in that

I always opt out of newsletters, third party referrals etc. but some companies still send out unsolicited emails claiming as a former customer that they are not unsolicited. Some companies send out emails with an unsubscribe link but other expect you to log into your account to search for the well hidden unsubscribe link. I tend to log in for payment as a "guest", without setting up an account, for one off purchases.

Assuming that its possible a UK owned company howeverany UK companies don't honour your wish with the TPS.

Many of these emails are in a HTML format which my email client doesn't render unless I launch a web browser. Sending them automatically to my junk folder takes me zero time.

surely any email client worthy of the name can display the text "bones" of an html message?

Broadback used his keyboard to write :

Tv Licensing emails lack that option. Recently they have been flooding me with emails asking me to go paperless. Fed up with them I had to ring TVL to get them to remove my email address from their records. I didn't mind them emailing renewal reminders, when it was due, but I didn't give them my email address for any other purpose than a timely reminder - now they have to post out a reminder on paper.

Andy Burns wrote on 25/06/2020 :

It's going to have to parse the HTML, and that's not trivial (and can be insecure if not done right).

Not all emails come with a text version.

I have a dillo pluging for my email client.

That may be true for true unsolicited email, but for stuff spewed by legit businesses that you have dealt with in the past, its a workable option.

I had to send off a snotty mail to a TOC (train operating company) that was spamming me, and that I had to log into my account to change my preferences to stop them

and trying to log in with my email resulted in "account in that name doesn't exist"

the mind boggles