Recently, a wave of email spam got me thinking.
Now, that’s a first – thought-provoking spam.
The latest spam attack has to do with newsletter subscriptions.
Here’s how it works —
- You receive an email asking you to confirm your sign-up for the latest newsletter
- Just click on the link
- We’ve all seen that, right?
- Here’s the thing – you have no idea who the sender is
The email could be a more sinister scam. I don’t know. I didn’t click on the links sent to me by three different unknown sources.
But, as I said, it got me thinking.
There is such a thing as too many newsletter subscriptions.
Blue Collar Logic
In the spirit of Blue Collar Comedy, here are some signs that you might have too many newsletter subscriptions.
Sign #1 – You receive the above email and click on the link
- You don’t know the sender
- You never heard of the site
- You figure you probably did sign up for it (since you do it all the time)
- So, what the heck, might as well check it out
Sign #2 – Your subscriptions outnumber your subscribers
- You don’t understand why you have so few subscribers
- But, you’re not worried
- Your newsletters guarantee the secret to more
Sign #3 – You delete newsletters without reading them
- You delete them every month
- You could unsubscribe
- But, you have so many you don’t read
- It would take forever to unsubscribe
Sign #4 – The newsletters start to look alike
- You swear you read the content somewhere else
- They don’t really offer anything new
- Even the graphics look the same
Sign #5 – You have no idea how many you have
- Quick, estimate how many subscriptions you have
- Less than 5?
- More than 20?
- You can’t count that high?
How did you do? Have any of the 5 signs crept into your Inbox?
How do you finish the sentence?
You know you have too many newsletter subscriptions when…
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