** Reply to note from "Carter, Antoinette (CCM)" <[log in to unmask]> Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:40:34 +0100
> One of the problems I always have with this issue of "click here to
> unsubscribe" is that the IT bods here keep telling me that I shouldn't
> ever use these, as then I will confirm the spammers that mine is a
> legitimate e-mail address.
Hi,
Which is what we say here too. If you believe the email comes from a trully
legitimate company then chance the option to unsubscribe. Otherwise your IT
people are probably perfectly correct.
Having said that ... a trully legitimate company should not have *subscribed* you
in the first place ... so can you trust them at all?
Charles
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Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Planning & Information, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN,
Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)1382-344891. Fax: 44(0)1382-348845.
http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/ ::egothor http://www.egothor.org/
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