Lately I’ve been patching the roofs of my email inboxes, which leak a torrent of unwanted messages — in addition to the usual spam. I do this mainly by opting out of mailings, most of which I never requested. That’s why, when I received an automated mailing wishing me “a blessed 2014 from the AlwaysOn family,” I thought now would be a good time to opt out of the large number of mailings I get from AlwaysOn. So I looked down to the bottom of the email, and found this:
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I clicked on that last link (which I’ve depersonalized) and was delivered to a page that says this:
I wouldn’t be writing this if it weren’t for that last item. I hate having words put in my mouth.
Here’s the deal: I’m unsubscribing because I’m getting too many emails, and I have other ways of finding out what’s going on. That’s it.
I wish a blessed new year for the AlwaysOn family too. I hope they take this feedback as the positive kind I mean it to be.
And, if I want to get automated emailings from them again, I’ll opt back in.
Merry, Happy, etc.