Re: Any dangers with this recipe?

On Mar 23, 2015, at 09:22, Alan Clifford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Firstly, I politely asked a company to stop sending emails to an address. They said the couldn't and I think they quoted the data protection act. They said I had to do it myself on their website.  Hmmm, was that true?

Maybe? Not sure where you are, but a lot of rules about email are very spammer friendly, so maybe?

> Any problems/dangers

I don’t see any issues.

Can you simply blacklist the company at the server level so they never get to deliver their spam?

I would hate to be wasting my resources processing their shit.

For example, I was unable to unsubscribe from the emails for Star Wars the Old Republic because I was required to login to my account to do so, but my account had expired because I’d not logged on in months so it was impossible to login.

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d/^To:.*kreme+tor/             REJECT You require passwords to unsubscribe, therefore you are spammer scum

They finally got a clue after about a year of rejections, so I *could* remove the rule, but I don’t because I like seeing it every now and then. The last email I got from them was in April 2013 and the last rejection I saw in my logs was in Feb of 2014. I stopped playing in Jan of 2012.

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