Technology/email spam, (sdf.org), 03/05/2019
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The "spammers" I'm talking about here are the companies that 
you purchase services or products from, but who you really 
don't want to get email from on a regular basis. You want 
important emails, but not junk, and they just don't know the 
difference (see "willful ignorance.")

So, they send their junk email, and I delete it. I try to 
opt-out when possible, but it doesn't matter, I get junk 
anyway. I do make an effort, honestly, but no matter how 
hard I try, there's always going to be some. Ah well, that's 
life.

Of course, these spam messages are riddled with tracking 
mechanisms ("pixels" for the non-technical jargon-of-the- 
day types.) I have images turned off, so these tracking 
mechanisms failed; the spammers have no way of knowing if 
their messages are coming through.

And that's where the desperation kicks in. Inevitably, I 
get emails begging me in the subject line to open them up 
and read. My account might not be functioning properly, 
they can't tell if the emails are going to the right place, 
and something terrible is probably going to happen. I delete 
them with the rest of the junk, and nothing bad ever 
happens.

Still, the desperation makes me laugh a little. The 
marketing dept. is so desperate the justify their existence, 
they'll do anything to collect data on their efforts. I 
guess they're just trying to pay the bills.