FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to Cancel Subscriptions

Re:FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to ... by caseyohara on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @05:22PM (#41863974)

In 2015, I somehow got subscribed to the Rensselaer School of Architecture Alumni mailing list on my personal email. I didn't go to RPI, I had never shown any interest in RPI, I don't even know anyone who went to RPI, and I had graduated from a different university about five years earlier.

I would get two or three emails a month from them, and I would click unsubscribe every time. The emails would continue. Finally, in 2018, I got the "We're sorry to see you go" unsubscribe confirmation email.

Then about three months ago, I started getting emails from the Rensselaer Office of Annual Giving. But this time it was to my work email, not my personal email. How would they get my work email address?

I have no idea how this happened, but I suspect universities play fast and loose with their mailing lists for exactly the reason you said. It's obnoxious.

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Re:FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to ... by compiler-guy on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @08:35PM (#41865292)

Possibly a typo or false address given by someone else, and the. It’s in their system forever. I get things for some person who apparently fat fingers our somewhat close email addresses all the time.

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