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For 2019 I have decided to try and unclutter my email inbox by reducing the number of unwanted sales/special offer/newsletter/spam type emails that seem to arrive continuously during each day.
They are not really true spam as such as most of them are from companies that I have used in the past, even if this might be so long ago I can't remember when or what for? You know the kind of thing, you once bought a watch battery for your wife's wristwatch 8 years ago and have been receiving emails offering the latest in discount fashion watches ever since.
I don't seem to get very much true, unsolicited spam emails. I guess my ISP filters most of them out somehow, or maybe it is some clever software running in the background on my PC?
Anyway, since the start of the year, rather than just deleting them, I have been scrolling to the bottom and clicking the 'unsubscribe' option. I started this campaign with some doubt and trepidation because I had a deep suspicion that doing this might actually notify the senders that they had hit a live email address and actually increase the number of emails I was sent! This doesn't appear to be the case and while it is early days yet it does look like it is working. One notable result that instantly pops into my mind is the Sports Direct plague. They where emailing either daily or every other day, I think my wife must have ordered something for the kids in the run up to Christmas, but whatever it was that triggered the rush it was annoying and was the tipping point for me to start my unsubscribe policy.
Any one else tried this? Currently I am allowing a few of the key companies I use to continue, mostly cycling related (Wiggle, CRC, and for now, Evans Cycles(part of SD)) but everyone else get the unsubscribe treatment. They seem to be honouring it so far, I guess with all the GDPR furore that went on in 2018 they are on their best behaviour, but I wonder how long it will be until the unscrupulous companies slip back into old habits and start re-using the denied email lists that they know are live due to the unsubscribe actions?
They are not really true spam as such as most of them are from companies that I have used in the past, even if this might be so long ago I can't remember when or what for? You know the kind of thing, you once bought a watch battery for your wife's wristwatch 8 years ago and have been receiving emails offering the latest in discount fashion watches ever since.
I don't seem to get very much true, unsolicited spam emails. I guess my ISP filters most of them out somehow, or maybe it is some clever software running in the background on my PC?
Anyway, since the start of the year, rather than just deleting them, I have been scrolling to the bottom and clicking the 'unsubscribe' option. I started this campaign with some doubt and trepidation because I had a deep suspicion that doing this might actually notify the senders that they had hit a live email address and actually increase the number of emails I was sent! This doesn't appear to be the case and while it is early days yet it does look like it is working. One notable result that instantly pops into my mind is the Sports Direct plague. They where emailing either daily or every other day, I think my wife must have ordered something for the kids in the run up to Christmas, but whatever it was that triggered the rush it was annoying and was the tipping point for me to start my unsubscribe policy.
Any one else tried this? Currently I am allowing a few of the key companies I use to continue, mostly cycling related (Wiggle, CRC, and for now, Evans Cycles(part of SD)) but everyone else get the unsubscribe treatment. They seem to be honouring it so far, I guess with all the GDPR furore that went on in 2018 they are on their best behaviour, but I wonder how long it will be until the unscrupulous companies slip back into old habits and start re-using the denied email lists that they know are live due to the unsubscribe actions?
