I'm an unsubscriber - let me out of here!!!!As a new year's resolution (and also because I'm drowning in spam) I decided to finally cull my subscriptions to any e-newsletters that turned out to be an utter waste of bandwidth in the last year.
Top of the list was one for a commercial radio station in London that lost its only decent presenter over a year ago. Unfortunately its unsubscribe process turned out to be the equivalent of hanging on to my leg screaming "DON'T LEAVE ME!!!!! DON'T GO!!!!!"
Having given them my e-mail address I figured that was it. But no, they wanted more. Eager to for humilation, they wanted to know WHY I was dumping them and they didn't stop there:
My
mobile number? Why? So they can ring me up and plead with me?
These guys were acting like a crazed ex-girlfriend. Or perhaps they wanted my full name and contact details just to make sure the hitman got the right person.
It was even better when I hit submit. This was all I got:
Guys, take the hint - if someone wants out, it's really not because they love you and want to help. It's because they think you're crap. Stop with the denial already and just let them go.
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